I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Would you wish that someone about cares you?Start care about someone, Then will you definitely deserve at least one person who cares about you!

But personally, I think [sainthood] is not so much the growth of virtue, as simply the replacement of prior vices with an addiction to one's god.

Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs.

You have to eat to cook. You can't be a good cook and be a noneater. I think eating is the secret to good cooking.

If Paris that brief flight allow, My humble tomb explore! It bears: Eternity, be thou My refuge! and no more.

It is more difficult by far to be independent of our own inner shackles than it is of the shackles that others might place upon us.

I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!

One night I came home. I figured, let my wife come on. I'll play it cool. Let her make the first move. She went to Florida.

May each of you have the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, and the hand to execute works that will leave the world a little better for your having been here.

Jesus didn't come to tell us the answers to the questions of life, he came to be the answer.