I write from real life. I am an unrepentant eavesdropper and a collector of stories. I record bits of overheard dialogue.

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.

absolute equality not possible . what is possible, we can honour the qualities in each person .that would reduce this gap

Mothers burning inside the risen suns of their children.

No martyr is among ye now | Whom you can call your own | So go on your way accordingly | But know you’re not alone.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.

But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosion of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow?

It is because nobody has been teaching you about hate; hence, hate has remained pure, unadulterated. When a man hatesyou, you can trust that he hates you.

Our minds are confused, but not our souls.

The fundamental basis of above-average performance in the long run is sustainable competitive advantage.

All through the years of our youth Neither could have known Their own thought from the other's, We were so much at one.