A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

You are the vessels of endless love. Your little, soft and melting heart is always carrying it for you and all, endlessly.

I walk the beach to smile at other peopleand their busy children, trying to findanother way to save the world.

There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.

The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.

Luck is for the ill-prepared.

Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts.

Romney, Gingrich, Santorum spent their week lecturing America about the morality of birth control. You know, you guys don't need birth control, you are birth control.

There have to be more important things going on in the world than my past.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.