I am interested in intense, unbreakable emotional connections and oftentimes, such connections can be found between siblings.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

Titles does not make a man. But the grace of thanks.

It's true. The storms won't last forever. The nasty weather will never last. There is always that light at the end of the tunnel.

It was important, Dumbledore said, to fight, and fight again, and keep fighting, for only then could evil be kept at bay, though never quite eradicated. . . .

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.

I love you as much as you love me... So if you hate me, it works out perfectly.

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

You don't need a reason to help people.

It’s making a statement about what life is, really. And I’m going to end the line with it.