Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer - its dust and lowering skies.

If you want to fly, you have to give up the things that weigh you down.

The function of freedom is to free someone else.

Don’t beg anybody for anything, especially love.

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

In times of dread, artists must never choose to remain silent.

All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was.

Oppressive language does more than represent violence; it is violence; does more than represent the limits of knowledge; it limits knowledge.

They don't want a princess. They want a war queen.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

If you show up in L.A. with your shirt inside out or socks mismatched, people start putting change in your cup.

My teammates know I'm down to earth. I'll joke with them. But when it comes to basketball, I try to be serious about it.

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

When you're a winner you're always happy, but if you're happy as a loser you'll always be a loser.

There's tons of magic in the world, and it's all science.

In America, if you want to make it as a golfer, you go to college on a scholarship. In Australia, you go to the airport with a plane ticket. The competition just isn't there.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!

Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving.