Don't expect to make a difference unless you speak up for yourself.

You’re not dead, but you’re not alive, either. You’re a wintergirl.

I want to go to sleep and not wake up, but I don’t want to die.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

We turned us into wintergirls, and when she tried to leave, I pulled her back into the snow because I was afraid to be alone.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

So, she tells me, the words dribbling out with the cranberry muffin crumbs, commas dunked in her coffee.

They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs.

In one aspect, yes, I believe in ghosts, but we create them. We haunt ourselves.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

You find out more of the type of person someone is when they are around someone in need

You can't wait around for something to become good, it either is, or isn't.

It is an economic axiom as old as the hills that goods and services can be paid for only with goods and services.

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

I believe that those who knew me [in my youth] took me for an eccentric.

If we don't take care of each other, who will? ... I don't want to ever say, 'I should've done something.'

Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.

Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.

Do your duty and leave the rest to heaven.