People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.

And now I understand that truth casts a spell of its own, one I'm not sure of how to hold on to, though I'm desperate to try.

I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating.

I love you for who you are, not who the world thinks you should be.

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

You couldn't be perfect enough to keep the world from betraying you.

The hand you hold the longest is your own.

There are no safe choices. Only other choices.

Jeez, someone needs to push the reset button on this planet.

Write like it matters, and it will.

I refuse to let the past find me here.

Women who have power are always feared.

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.

Politics is not about power.

Without trying, I'm different.

I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines