Pretty Stones

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.

Even creative nonviolence can go unnoticed unless participants are attacked.

A leader should have the same attitude of God’s love toward people.

And the biggest reward was reaping the kind of life I deserved.

To carry words in your heart that are less than loving would be a mistake . Only allow kindness to move in and evict the rest.~bns

My sister and I truly are best friends.

If we had the right words, if we had the language, we would need no weapons.

Sales people should take lessons from their kids. What does the word ‘no’ mean to a child? Almost nothing.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

I'm as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

I'm kind of jealous of the life I'm supposedly leading.