As for my next book I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear pendant gravid asking to be cut or it will fall.

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.

The best self is a good being.

Never try to lock the virtue’s door with the key of viceIt may lock forever

Teaching was the best way to learn.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.

I'm a very visual person, and I love opening beautiful books on art or design and looking through them.

You're not the only one accused of hit and run. Tire tracks all across my back, well I can see you've had your fun.

Scientists try to discover or unravel the mysteries of nature. Some of the problems we are trying to solve have been solved in nature.

Make no conditions and none will be imposed.

All you have to do is do a little bit of research and a floodgate of material comes your way.

Normal is nothing more than a cycle on a washing machine.