I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

I love you more than the cookie monster loves cookies.

My life: under construction, but beautiful.

I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.

I often feel more disgust than pride about this kind of success. So there's no regret whatsoever.

A full mind is an empty bat.

The problem with being British... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success.

I voted to threaten the use of force to make Saddam Hussein comply with the resolutions of the United Nations.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o.

A City University of New York study done in 1991 revealed that nearly 90% of the American people identify themselves religiously as Christians or Jews, while only 7.5 percent claim no religion.