Alice Walker

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Jessica Jackley has a gift for making people want to fork over their cash. To total strangers. Far, far away.

But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.

Identity theft involving these cards is a growing form of white collar crime, facilitating illegal immigration, banking and accounting fraud, tax evasion, and other nefarious activities.