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" It is crucial that young people are taught sustainable child production and rearing. "

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" I can be almost terminally grief-stricken because things are so dire, but at the same time, there's a real lightheartedness about just the recoverability of life, of how things change, how they're not the same, ever again. "

" I advocate that every woman be a part of a circle, and a circle that meets at least once a month, or if you can't do that, once every two months or every four months. "

" I'm still living at least five parallel lives, honestly! I wonder about it. I have no idea how that happens. "

" America is not nearly done. We're only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows... what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants - if they survive that long - will see. "

" I have a collective sense of suffering. "

" I think Americans generally are not used to working very hard, in terms of working for the collective. I think in our country we have taken individualism to its farthest reaches, possibly. "

" I think that all people who feel that there is injustice in the world anywhere should learn as much of it as they can bear. That is our duty. "

" I'm very disappointed in Obama. I was very much in support of him in the beginning, but I cannot support war. I cannot support droning. I cannot support capitulating to the banks. "

" Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise. "

" I think war is so incredibly backward, and I don't think it's intelligent, and it's not sane. So why would you want to support it? "

" How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. "

" I was brought up to try to see what was wrong and right it. Since I am a writer, writing is how I right it. "

" I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad. "

" It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom. "

" I prefer to praise people and the world rather than criticize them and it. "

" One child must never be set above another, even in casual conversation, not to mention in speeches that circle the globe. "

" You have to give others the opportunity to love who you love. If they don't accept it, it's their loss. "

" Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that trees do everything to git attention we do, except walk? "

" I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved. "

" Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at almost anything for five minutes, you will be stunned by how marvelous life is and how incredibly lucky we are to have it. "

" Since the time of the witch burnings, the grandmothers and the healers and the midwives have been systematically targeted. And burned at the stake for hundreds of years, decimating whole communities. "

" It is important to remember yourself. "

" Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly. "

" This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy. "

" Human beings may well be unable to break free of the dictatorship of greed that spreads like a miasma over the world, but no longer will we be an inarticulate and ignorant humanity, confused by our enslavement to superior cruelty and weaponry. "

" Some people are painters, and some are ballet dancers, and I'm a writer. "

" You know, one race will not be a survivor if the other one dies, and that's something that we should think about. "

" If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it. "

" In search of my mother's garden, I found my own. "