I always had the deepest affection for people who carried sublime tears in their silences.

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.

Sure, Bob Dylan had some good songs. But he could have been a doctor.

She was just...hurt. And tired of feeling as if she wasn't good enough to officially mate with. It was no wonder her wolf was going insane.

A reaper in a bubble bath? What an affront to the dignity of death.

You can become even a co-creator of this universe... an assurance coming from the Ancient Wisdom

Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.

I wish I had put myself out there a little bit more and experienced people more instead of protecting myself.

I've never been a feminist.

A thief, though rich, will continue to steal, but an honest man, though poor, will ever seek to pay his debts.

Some of us are just less damaged than others.

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here.