Am I a weed, carried this way, that way, on a tide that comes twice a day without a meaning?

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.

Don Quixote is not just Don Quixote

Sometimes i's not about the win, it's about the experience.

It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.

Against other things it is possible to obtain security, but when it comes to death we human beings all live in an unwalled city.

Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

They drove a long way through the snowy woods, till they came to the town of Pepin. Mary and Laura had seen it once before, but it looked different now.

There is no more sure tie between friends than when they are united in their objects and wishes.

Perhaps profit isn't everything, but nothing works without profit. Profit is the basis for independent journalism.

I grew up in such a small city, I had to be popular or I'd be dead. So I had to be popular!