A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

It's the last great free-for-all robbery of everybody's earth.

You cannot save people. You can only love them.

Nothing in our society-with the exception of violence and fear-has been more effective in keeping women in their place than the degradation of the menstrual cycle.

Live fast, die young.

By focusing on love and cultivating an internal security, we can start to take the steps in our lives to create profound change.

Just because you have the emotional range of a teaspoon doesn't mean we all have.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.

I am at the Olympics, I forgot to tie my suit, how is this gonna happen?

They're going to need a DNA test to identify him after the fight (Chavez Jr.)

I probably protect myself by not asking myself too much.

My stars shine darkly over me