Afterwards, people come and say, "I felt like you said that just to me. What you said is something I'm going through right now," so you know that spiritual connection is going on.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

I am obsessed with becoming a woman comfortable in her skin.

My weapon has always been language, and I've always used it, but it has changed. Instead of shaping the words like knives now, I think they're flowers, or bridges.

You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.

The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.

'Hispanic' is English for a person of Latino origin who wants to be accepted by the white status quo. 'Latino' is the word we have always used for ourselves.

If you know two cultures and two languages, that intermediate place, where the two don't perfectly meet, is really interesting.

People know when you're speaking from el corazón. You have that pain. Take that pain and do something with it. That's very powerful.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

You don't want somebody who doesn't know his own heart, do you? You'll find someone who's brave enough to love you. Someday. One day. Not today.

Our values have led us where we are in life right now. We can't excel beyond the power behind our values that we have embraced...

Sophronia felt bound to object. "I, for one, should prefer not to shoot at someone I like.""Admirable scruples, Miss Temminnick. Get over them. For you will do it anyway.

The body is more than the temple of the soul. It’s the grounded celebration of its rapture.

Sometimes, the best way of solving a problem is by letting it unsolved.

Science and technology are what we can do; morality is what we agree we should or should not do.

Bright and illustrious illusions!

Guilt. It comes naturally to me as a Jew and a Liberal.

I run, therefore I am. And given the years improved fitness adds to our lives, if I did not run, maybe I would no longer be.

If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.

Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently.