A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

That aspects are within us; and who seems Most kingly is the King.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

You have never loved me as I love you--never--never! Yours is not a passionate heart--your heart does not burn in a flame! You are, upon the whole, a sort of fay, or sprite-- not a woman!

Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons.

The perfect woman, you see [is] a working-woman; not an idler; not a fine lady; but one who [uses] her hands and her head and her heart for the good of others.

Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?

Let the voices of all mothers be heard, as we come to honor the gift of Motherhood.

You see, I am a poet, and not quite right in the head, darling. It’s only that.

Everything begins by making your audience pay attention.

To have a friend and a comrade as your co-star, especially in a romantic comedy, is really important. It gives you the room. It's easier to give yourself and the other person permission to play.

The fact is that it was bourgeois white feminism that I was reacting against when I stood in my first women's studies classes and said, "Black women have always worked."

The game Rock Band has been haunting me like a bad ring tone. It gets stuck in my head and momentarily effaces all that I love about music.

Leadership is not a position or a title, it is action and example.

The only way to become authentically powerful is to create authentic power. You cannot wish, want, or command authentic power into your life, although you can try.

Art comes from life, not from the studio

A man who invents himself needs someone to believe in him... Not only the need to be believed in, but the need to believe in another. You've got it: Love.