We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

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.

See life as an adventure. There is no security in being feeble. Be brave, be exciting. Be creative. Live’.

God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.

I am of the opinion that there is nothing which has been produced by the will of man which cannot in its turn be altered by another human will.

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipsitck.

When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.

Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make something of myself worth giving.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'