Always make your needs and expectations known,she used to say. That way no one gets hurt.

It looked like the world was covered in a cobbler crust of brown sugar and cinnamon.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

Happiness is a risk. If you’re not a little scared, then you’re not doing it right.

Every life needs a little space. It leaves room for good things to enter it.

Don't let anyone see your vulnerable spots. Once they knew how to hurt you, they would do it again and again.

I needed to stop being what everyone thought I was.

The next morning dawned bright and sweet, like ribbon candy.

She looked like autumn, when leaves turned and fruit ripened.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.

She was so Southern that she cried tears that came straight from the Mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches.

The mechanism of natural selection depends on the survival, not of the strongest, nor the most intelligent, but of the most adaptable.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

A woman can be seeking attention and also make a statement.They don't need to be mutually exclusive.

Society not only continues to exist by transmission, by communication, but it may fairly be said to exist in transmission, in communication.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

Somewhere we turn ourselves into victims instead of being the powerful women we really are meant to be.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Hierarchy works well in a stable environment.

You’re not supposed to animate drawings. You’re supposed to animate feelings.

Unfortunately, very few people in America know the real name of Hurricane Katrina because the coal and oil industries have spent millions of dollars to keep the public in doubt about the issue.