Death is woven in with the violets,” said Louis. “Death and again death.”)

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.

The Holy Scripture is the Spirit of Holy One.

The less people know about me, the easier my job is.

When I'm 100 I'll still be doing pin-ups

Critical thinking relies on content, because you can't navigate masses of information if you have nothing to navigate to.

What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength.

When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

You are not your resume, you are your work.

When I think of my career, I can't help but think of the kid with his ball, falling in love.