A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

Let me tell you something: You can live in a broken home, you can play with a broken toy, but you cannot love with a broken heart.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

I can't abide people who go soft over animals and then cheat every human they come across!

The bacteriologist, often risking his life to find cures for lethal afflictions, was another kind of imperial hero, as brave in his way as the soldier-explorer.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

The practice of leadership is not the same as the exercise of power.

I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.

I believe for everyone who goes astray, someone will come to show the way.

Who you think you are is what compels you to do what you do!

Now I understood that the same road was to bring us together again. Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.