God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why.

Don't give in to the darkness, for there is so much life ahead of you.

all day long, one storm then another—and I take your hands like gentle flowers that blossom into awareness

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them to provide some light along the way.

Oh! how amazing it is that people can talk so much about men's power and goodness, when if God did not hold us back every moment, we should be devils incarnate!

If you're having trouble succeeding, fail.

When it comes to success, it will come when it comes. A delay does not mean a denial.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

the bliss that comes from ignorance should seldom be encouraged for it is likely to do one out of a more satisfying bliss.

The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.