How easy it was to lie to strangers, to create with strangers the versions of our lives we imagined.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward towards success.

Hell, in my opinion, is never finding your true self and never living your own life or knowing who you are.

All the movies used to be 'colossal'. Now they're all 'frank'. I think I liked 'colossal' better.

Art is an irreplaceable way of understanding and expressing the world.

I feel, I think, I judge; therefore, a part of organized matter like me is capable of feeling, thinking, and judging.

We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.

It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously

People create social conditions and people can change them.

You're kidding. I thought all geniuses read Latin. Isn't that the international language for smart people?"-Shane (Glass Houses)