How many times have people used a pen or paintbrush because they couldn’t pull the trigger?

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.

I hope you see what you've done to me.

There's no shame compared to being beautiful with nothing in your brain, an ugly devil with wits is much better that the former.

Jazz is democracy in music.

The very basis of the work- the very core of the work, is that everything we do can come always new.

Hillary [Clinton] is - you know, she's every bit as much scary on war as Donald Trump is.

I had to survive a lot. I didn't premeditate my life. Life just happened as it did. And I had to figure it out as I went along.

If it is true, as used to be said, that oversalting means the cook is in love, at least one cook at Le Cirque must be head over heels.

Still I rise Still I fight Still I might crack a smile Keep my eyes on the prize See my haters tell em hi

I know what the caged bird feels, alas!

Work hard at work worth doing.