I am always on the women's side.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

I honestly don't diet or work out regularly. I'm just always running around - you'll never catch me having a day on the sofa.

I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.

We don't have to make toys that are coated with lead paint in China. We can make good toys in Alabama and North Carolina.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

The projects I look for to produce or direct would not be ones in which I would want to act.

Every Christian in America has some minimal responsibility to get involved in helping the poor brethren in the church in other countries.

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building.

When my mother died, and when my father died, it's big. Our parents are giants; they're titans of our lives, so of course it's going to be a big deal.

We're so special, when you look in the dictionary under short bus, there's a group picture of us,'' Stevie Rae said, sounding weak but definately alive.

Ghosts and vampires are never only about ghosts and vampires.