When you look past the image, a celebrity is merely a person you know nothing about.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

Most people yearn for one thing more than anything else: inner peace. Without it they have no lasting happiness or security.

Your suffering is never caused by the person you're blaming.

Honestly, Hillary Clinton should be locked up.

There is no need to run outside for better seeing... Rather abide at the center of your being; For the more you leave it the less you learn. Search your heart and see... The way to do is to be.

There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.

I had a definite sense of somehow being a passenger in an evil vehicle crusing through Paradise.

A positive attitude does not cure cancer, any more than a negative one causes it.

Because many advances have happened, we've lost the urgency (and that's just human nature) that we had before, when we couldn't vote, couldn't use mass transportation, or drink from the fountains.

There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

The state does not function as we desired. A man is at the wheel and seems to lead it, but the car does not drive in the desired direction. It moves as another force wishes.