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.

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.

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.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.

Magic and miracle they are nothing but manipulation of sight and heart.

Misery will never be your destiny. Your mind deserves joy in abundance, but it's your responsibility to constantly feed the right words and beliefs to it.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.

Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

Why is a picture of something real eventually more exciting than the thing itself?

I don't know Heidi Klum. She was never known in France. Claudia Schiffer also doesn't know who she is.

I'm not opposed to commerce, even though I'm an artist.