The only reason race matters is because of racism.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Success is far more perilous than failure, isn’t it? You’ve got to be doubly strong and watchful and wary.

Sure, everything is ending, " Jules said, "but not yet.

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.

Most men expose themselves in battle enough to save their honor, few wish to do so more than sufficiently, or than is necessary to make the design for which they expose themselves succeed.

I don't know how to ground myself without the other actor present.

I'd go back to Leeds at any time, but not right now.

Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint.

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

There is one qualification the manager cannot acquire but must bring to the task. It is not genius; it is character.