It is not your job to convince men to like you.

The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.

Instead of waiting for a leader you can believe in, try this: Become a leader you can believe in.

Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend.

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

A tough guy told me, "I'll bet you $10 you're dead." I was afraid to bet him.

I'm tall and thin but not strong, so you're either an athlete or you're funny.

I don't really produce so-called commercial pop music so I haven't changed so much. I've been on the one path always.

Not everyone can see things the way you see it, so let go. You can't see everything the way they see it either, so let go again.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.