A poetess is a collection of unfinished thoughts. She is a tormented phantom, a harbinger of life and death. Those who peer deep inside her catacombs will learn that even madness is a virtue.

I adore forgotten words, long lost folk tales, and books with pages soft and crumbling. I am a collector of scents and memories. The things that others bury are the things I hold most dear.

Awake, O brave one! Arise, O lion-heart! Be the messenger that spreads compassion.

No one can escape slavery

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.

Every novelist should write something for children at least once in his lifetime.

Truth, like gold, is not less so for being newly brought out of the mine.

Every day that a woman is making less money, that's less money she has in retirement.

I don't limit my taste. There's some jazz that I like and there's some opera. I've been listening to what was essentially country music, but it crossed over to rock.