People only become writers if they can't find the one book they've always wanted to read.

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.

The parched soil of fear needs steady rain.

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Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor.

Child care is an invisible part of the economy.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

Wonder what customers really want? Ask. Don't Tell.

A lot of my success comes from black music. It's something I'm very proud of.

If the only motive was to help people who could not afford education, advocates of government involvement would have simply proposed tuition subsidies.

Women tell men things that men are not very likely to find out for themselves.

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.