To Have Realized Your Dream Makes You

Listening To Someone Talk Isn't At All Like Listening To Their Words Played Over On A Machine. What You Hear When You Have A Face Before You Is Never What You Hear When You Have Before You A Winding Tape.

And Yet, Or Just For This Reason, It's So Fascinating To Be A Woman. It's An Adventure That Takes Such Courage, A Challenge That's Never Boring. You'll Have So Many Things To Engage You If You're Born A Woman. To Begin With, You'll Have To Struggle To Maintain That If God Exists He Might Even Be An Old Woman With White Hair Or A Beautiful Girl. Then You'll Have To Struggle To Explain That It Wasn't Sin That Was Born On The Day When Eve Picked An Apple, What Was Born That Day Was A Splendid Virtue Called Disobedience.

But To Deny Fate Is Arrogance, To Declare That We Are The Sole Shapers Of Our Existence Is Madness;if You Deny Fate Life Becomes The Series Of Missed Opportunities, A Regret For What Never Was And Could Have Been, A Remorse Of What Was Not Done And Could Have Been Done, And The Present Is Wasted, Twisted Into Another Missed Oppurtunity.

Khomeini Was Not A Puppet Like Arafat Or Qaddafi Or The Many Other Dictators I Met In The Islamic World. He Was A Sort Of Pope, A Sort Of King - A Real Leader.

[indira Gandhi] Looked Tired That Day, And All Of A Sudden I Exclaimed, 'deep Down I Don't Envy You, And I Shouldn't Like To Be In Your Place.' And She Said, 'the Problem Is Not In The Problems I Have, It's In The Idiots Around Me. Democracy, You Know...' I Now Wonder What She Meant By That Unfinished Phrase.