Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall

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'm Allen Walker!"My life....is over...I'm going to die....

Overcoming what frightens you the most strengthens you the most.

You will see true character after a defeated ambition

Vision is tomorrow's reality expressed as an idea today.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

And I'll know my song well before I start singing

I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.

Nonsense is nonsense even when spoken by world-famous scientists.

In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.