Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

Resist much, obey little.

If you keep doing things that don't matter to you, you will not have time to do things that really do.

Most people do not see their words as power.

All's taken away: my love and my power.The body, thrown into city it hates, Finds no joy in the sunlight. With every hourThe blood grows colder in my veins.

[Movie "Fences"] is more than holds up today. We have had a tremendous response at the screenings.

I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know, and I'll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire.

We also get thousands of suggestions. The default answer is always no.

Only the dying man can tell how much time he has left.

And it's true, you hear things in Damascus and, after a few hours, the human double-take stops operating.