The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

Open your heart to a baseball team and you're liable to get it broken.

I don't think most people would like my personality. There might be a few -- very few, I would imagine- who are impressed by it, but rarely would anyone like it.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

In soaps, people come back from the dead all the time, to the point where death is just a bus stop.

A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.

It takes 10 million failures to find the right stuff.

There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

I have been fiercely private, in part because I could never understand how a journalist could be otherwise. I was also the mother of small children, and security concerns were paramount.

Let the straight-limbed laugh at the club-footed, the white skinned at the blackamoor.

God was created by evolution, inside the imagination of a primate.

Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees.