When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary.

I am afraid of darkness... even though it knows me it loves me.

The reason placing blame repeatedly fails to work is that I repeatedly place it on everyone else instead of where it actually belongs.

it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people.

Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be.

For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]

We don't want any vocalist messing up the music.

Each role, I feel like takes you on a different journey based on who that character is.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

I guess what happens to a lot of people as they get older is that they get more conservative, but with me, the opposite is the case.