A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

What is important is to deeply understand things and their relations to each other. This is where intelligence lies. The fact of being quick or slow isn’t really relevant.

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.

We believe in the fundamental strength of Israel's economy and have confidence in its long-term potential.

it takes as long as three generations of hard work, three generations of sacrifice to correct the wrong!

There are certain times when I feel more inspired, filled with a strong power that forces me to listen to my inner voice, and when I feel more need than ever for a Pleyel piano.

What being home-schooled has taught me, more than anything, is what a waste of a life high school is.

Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.

After working with so many great actors and acting students in film school, it was a whole other thing working with Luke [Kirby].

Doing right is never wrong.

You seen my shows; I bring the 'hood out.