All artists need a room of their own

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.

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity for joy.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

I have been surrounded by love letters you two have built each other for years, encased in tents.

Good deeds are no less good because their object is unworthy.

I have no idea what the audience makes of me.

The talents of an artist, small or large, are God-given... They are a sacred trust.

We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance

Haste is productive of injury, and so is too much hesitation. He is the wisest man who does everything at the proper time.

Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.