The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.

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.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

I would rather clean than beg.

Development is maintenance.

But beyond all that, the question that is continually begged is why isn't America leading the way toward total abolition of nuclear weapons.

The race of children possesses magically sagacious powers.

The aristocracy most widely developed in America is that of wealth.

The good feeling I get from contributing rivals anything I felt on the Olympic stand in Albertville.

The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His.