As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.

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.

Three types of people are there, those who smile, those who think and smile and those who smile and think. Beware of those in the last two category, because you don't know their thoughts!!!

NOTHING goes exactly as planned.Make your OWN destiny

I was always really proud of the fact that I had a very positive influence as a role model.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

I always think of Meryl [Streep] for everything now. There really aren't many actresses around who are truly lucid the way she is.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I am not playing Wimbledon because I am allergic to grass.

Overheard in a Washington D.C. church confessional: "Bless me Father, for sins have been committed."

There are several multiple-witnessed events where humans have been taken on board spacecraft.