As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest. But the frogs die in earnest. - Joanna Russ

There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Writing pays very badly. Writing pays very badly. Writing pays worse now than it did then. If you do it, do it for the love of it. You may even make a living at it and you may not. (If you do what Danielle Steel does, you probably will.) This issue is very American, i.e. the idea that celebrities have real lives and the rest of us don't. Publicity doesn't necessarily mean power or money and unfortunately believing that the "real" news is about celebrities leaves us all totally ignorant of the forces that are truly hurting us, and truly shaping our lives.

people will never be totally at home, spiritually, in any environment.