For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A very fine artist can take something quite ordinary and, through sheer artistry and willpower, turn it into a work of art.

All I can think is that it must be a kind of rebellion, To arm your fears like soldiers and slay them.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

The best evidence of unsophisticated ideas is the behavior that follows.

Long is the road from conception to completion.

I perceive everything to be constantly subjective and strange. My version of truth in what I express, it feels like that opaque quality that you're talking about. It's just me being legitimate.

Boys are still led to believe that power is associated with domination.

If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.