I don't know that anyone in the United States is taught to rest.

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.

She wanted him, but she didn't want to want him.

And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

Every man is the son of his own works.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

Believe in the integrity and value of the jagged path. We don't always do the right thing on our way to rightness.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

Metaphors of unity and integration take us only so far, because they are derived from the finiteness of the human mind.

But darling, I wish you well On your way to the wishing well

What if miliseconds influence centuries?