You send a girl to school in order to make friends - the right sort.

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.

One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.

Leave the woodpile higher than you found it.

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

I draw whatever hits me.

If you can't travel to the developing world, look at helping to fund a woman with a small loan and follow her. Learn her story. Learn about the difference that you're making.

Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.

Of course, this person is to have the trust of the American people, then he or she would not only have the wish but also the supported political will to implement all these agreements.