Art is not a copy of the real world; one of the damn things is enough.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I believe with all my heart that the cliches are true, that we are our own best friends and best company, and that if you're not right for yourself, it's impossible to be right for anyone.

Stick in and do my best.

In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.

John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave His soul goes marching on.

I love looking back, and even putting new music on vinyl - if it's right!

I have my rights, not because of Washington suddenly deciding, Strom Thurmond and others, "Hey, let's give certain Americans equal rights." But because of the ardent, unyielding voice of protesters.

Girls are impossible to satisfy." "Not every girl." Not me. I'd be happy if he'd just like me a little.

It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.

I am inspired by the lives of good and faithful women. From the beginning of time, the Lord has placed significant trust in them.

Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited.