Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

If you feel lucky, then you are.

Few men are a threat to a fully-trained w

The past isn’t always as beautiful as we paint it in our minds.

I think I'd like to be best friends with Björk, because I'd like to pick her brain a lot all the time and just have weird times together.

Great ages of art come only when a widespread creative impulse meets an equally widespread impulse of sympathy . . .

Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.

The Israeli regime is a tool in the hands of Zionists to control the Middle-East and the entire world.

I love teaching. It's a job that lasts forever. Whatever you teach children today travels with them far into the future.

One's prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.

When you read something that good, it's terrifying because you're thinking, "Oh, god, what if I don't get this?"

Sadhyojata means “creating every moment anew, knowing every moment new.’ We are used to a certain dimension, so this may go beyond you.