And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

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.

Honesty may not bring you success, but it always adds to your dignity.

Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

I believe that the world is dying, not just me. And fantasy will save no one. The deathly unreality of Utopia, the merchandizing of Utopia is wicked, deadly reality.

It's reassuring to realize that everybody is as stupid as you are and that all we are doing when we are standing in the kitchen wondering what we came in here for is "woking.

The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside

It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.

God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker.

Fate leads the willing, and drags along the reluctant.

When I came up, it was all about originality and collective research. There is an awful lot of imitation going on now.

Saving the world happens one person at a time. Be at the front of the queue. Each one of us has to work hard to achieve our collective dream for a healthier planet.