He will regard his people's cry, the widow's tear, the orphan's moan.

Let [us] seek for wisdom instead of power and [we] will have all the power [we] have wisdom to exercise.

It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.

I loved and lost and survived.

The hottest thing in the world is to wear pants with stockings.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.

Instinct is the direct connection with truth.

Uncomfortable silences. Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to be comfortable?

We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

Your body is woven from the light of heaven. Are you aware that its purity and swiftness is the envy of angels and its courage keeps even devils away.

In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

the conch exploded into a thousand white fragments and ceased to exist.