I go by my own standards, and I will be the voice of the curves for the women that feel like they can't stand up for themselves.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

I don't have to accept what you think I should look like and I do not accept what you think I should look like.

I am really glad women are speaking out.

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

We're all blessed and we're all blighted, Chief Inspector, " said Finney. "Everyday each of us does our sums. The question is, what do we count?

My work is always more emotional than I am. My characters say things to each other that I get accused of not being able to say to my girlfriend.

The compass of accurate knowledge directs the shortest, safest, cheapest course to any destination

Sen. Frist has every right, and indeed the duty, to see that every presidential nominee for the Federal bench at every level gets an up or down vote.

I believe in divine inspiration and things like that and I really relish a good, attentive, participating audience.

You put yourself in the receptive frame of mind with which we approach music or poetry, which you can measure the difference on a neurological scanner.

Repetition is based on body rhythms, so we identify with the heartbeat, or with walking, or with breathing.

Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.

The more you fulfill yourself, the less you will seek God.