Half the time she did things not simply, not for themselves; but to make people think this or that; perfect idiocy she knew for no one was ever for a second taken in.

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.

Be an example of small acts of kindness

We created Brave wherever we were brave.

You need three things in the theatre - the play the actors and the audience and each must give something.

I'm like Donatello. For real. You probably want to come play your joints for me get my condolence.

The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

In other living creatures the ignorance of themselves is nature, but in men it is a vice.

Revolution is like Saturn, it devours its own children.

Believe me, I've had interviews where the person says, "So when did you start and why? What about your parents?" I say to them, "Please, have you heard of the word Google?"

Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

Fame is but a fruit tree- so very unsound. It can never flourish 'till its stock is in the ground.