Even when I cannot write, I know I am still a writer, just the way I know I am still sexual even if I have not had a lover for many months.

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Sisterhood - that is, primary and bonding love from women - is, like motherhood, a capacity, not a destiny. It must be chosen, exercised by acts of will.

I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.

Days I kept busy with fractured angels' client masquerades.

When you died I didn't weep nor dream but knew you like a god breathe in each healing we begin.

I am a woman who understands the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin still lie beyond me.

A good traveler is one who who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveler does not know where he came from.

Falling isn’t so bad, you know. It’s only the landing that hurts.

Make it happen now, not tomorrow. Tomorrow is a loser's excuse.

You said that the mind is like the wind but perhaps it is we who are like the wind Knowing nothing, simply blowing through. Never aging, never dying.

You really dug your own grave,” he mutters. “And I’m going to bury you in it.” “Say that louder,” I tell him, under my breath. “I dare you.

I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'

Leaders shape our visions of the possible and direct our energies toward it.

I've never been interested in playing the boring ingenue.

We will welcome them with bullets and shoes.

. . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice.