I have many problems in my life, but I don't think that identity is one of them.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

The life that I have lived was no more than a mask covering the real me. What has happened was not to kill me but to reveal me.

I understand the gist of your speculation, ' said Rhialto. 'It is most likely nuncupatory.

No man is entirely worthless, he can always serve as a bad example.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you are.

Nothing ages your car as much as the sight of your neighbor's new one.

As I've been open with my faith, there's a consistency that almost disarms people. They know what they're going to get when they see me. They know what they're going to get when they talk to me.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

We admire the castles, because we admire the security!

I want to be in places I've never been before.