Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking." Cam: "Oh God." Avery: "Shut up.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

The past is where its supposed to be.

When men in secular life, who might be religious or not, see women being treated as secondary in the eyes of God, they assume that it's OK for them to do it.

The days are gone forever when our enemies could blackmail us with nuclear bombs.

You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own

One is as one is, and the love that can't encompass both is a poor sort of love.

A good man is hard to find," she said wistfully. "Not everyone is as lucky as you are.

People have done pornographic pictures forever, but most of the people who involve themselves in explicit sexuality aren't really artists.

When there is time to think about cricket, I think but when there is time to be with family, I try to do justice to that aspect of my life as well.