For a woman to be taken as seriously as a man she must be three times as effective. Happily, this is not difficult.--Simone de Beauvoir

Idiot, " I said, before grinning broadly and crushing his mouth to mine. "We need to pick new pet names for each other, " he muttered as I hefted myself up from the ground.

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

Listen to me, don't listen to me. Talk to me, don't talk to me.

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.

O Black and unknown bards of long ago, How came your lips to touch the sacred fire?

Working at a startup to make a lot of money was never a thing, and that's why I decided to just finish up school. That was way more important for me.

We are the richest country in the world. We spend more on health care than any other country. Yet we have the worst health care in the Western world. Come on. We can do better than this.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Reintegration with Nature, which we are, is the recovery of spontaneity.