She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust.

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.

Gratefulness and forgiveness leads to happiness.

Beth's not on that train?""Nope. She's not even in that station, that town, or that part of whatever country your metaphor lives in.

I am like a little pencil in God's hand. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.

Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.

We live in a world of what have you done for me lately. We don't remember the day before sometimes. Think back five, six, years ago what he was doing. It's unheard of.

To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

My cheeks explode when I smile. Thats why I have to look so nonplussed.