"Against my will, in the course of my travels, the belief that everything worth knowing was known at Cambridge gradually wore off. In this respect my travels were very useful to me."

"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell."

"Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution."

"Anything you're good at contributes to happiness."

"There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization."

"Peace is purchased from strength. It's not purchased from weakness or unilateral retreats."

"A nation is the same people living in the same place."

"During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs."