How far do our feelings take their colour from the dive underground? I mean, what is the reality of any feeling?

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.

God knew that children grow and mature best in a stable, loving family, and this was one reason He gave marriage to us.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes.

Self-doubt kills talent.

Mother's milk leads to everything.

Exerting yourself to the limit over and over again, that is the essence of running. Running is painful, but the pain doesn't leave me, I can take care of it. That agrees with my mentality.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself

Looking at her is like waking up.