A girl should command attention, not suffer it.

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing.

No matter what you do, someone always knew you would.

How a mother comes to love her child, her caring at all for this thing that's made her heavy, lopsided and slow, this thing that made her wish she were dead ... that's the miracle.

American girls never whimper.

Reading is dreaming with open eyes

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I think there are a lot of writers that can get away with not being gifted with words.

Don't operate on the heart with a hatchet.

Tennis is seen all around the world; if I am home or anywhere in the country, United States, people will stare.

Mind cannot think without duality. Duality is the way of thinking. In silence, all dualities disappear.

It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again.

My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.