A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute.

An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.

Change itself is neither good nor bad, but knowledge is always useful.

I look for characters that interest me, and a story that keeps me involved and makes me want to know what happens next.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

True intimacy is only build around the freedom to disagree.

Acting is something I've done since I was six years old, performing for my mum and my family in the living room, and I do it because my heart's in it.

Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.