I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

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.

....breakups mean flowers.

I think there is a break down of trust generally, between people and politicians. I think that's come about for a whole variety of reasons.

Fashion is not about buying a second skin. Fashion is about having a fantasy.

My father once told me, and it's stuck with me to this day: As you walk through life, every time you fart it pushes you forward.

I know this much: if you gotta write, honey, you gotta write. Some call it a disease, some a madness. Ah, but I call it love.

There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing.

I need thy presence every passing hour; What but thy grace can foil the tempter's power?

When I did 'Babe' I wanted to talk about animal rights without going through some convoluted justifications about using animal products.

The incompetence of the [Donald] Trump transition team, the likes of which we've never seen is a bad thing.

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.