People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

If you are faithful in little things, then you will be given a bigger commitment.

You are right, I do fall down a lot. But that wouldn’t be true if I never stood back up.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

As it turns out social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

Australia is so kind that just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest.

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

Hope you don't think this is Billy Joel unplugged. I'm a piano player. I'm already unplugged.

If you go down to Texas, people are real proud about and they rep Texas.

I learned what my weaknesses were and I went out the next day to turn those weaknesses intro strengths.

It is the Constitution of the United States that has been undermined, undercut, and is under attack. It is the American people's liberties that is in jeopardy. That is why I wrote 'Losing America.'