I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Turn a major mistake into a master mentor, learn from it.

To move forward, you must first take a step

Let the cats rule the world

If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.

I'm always hoping for the nights that are inspired where you almost have an out of body experience

In every artist there is poetry. In every human being there is the poetic element. We know, we feel, we believe.

I like any dog that makes me look good when it stands next to me.

Possessing material comforts in no way guarantees happiness. Only spiritual wealth can bring true true happiness.

Kings kill; clowns don't; therefore the clowns of the kings are more valuable than the kings!

Love For All; Hatred for None