I belong to no race nor time. I am the eternal feminine with its string of beads.

If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.

I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.

Bitterness is the coward's revenge on the world for having been hurt.

If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it.

We often gain awareness through a baseline comparison between now and next.

The Fear of failure is the greatest fear of man. Even the fear of death is fear of failing to continue life,

Ignorance, as they say, is usually fatal, but sometimes it can be bliss.

Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things

It mattered most to me then because of where I was in my life. So in a way, there isn't just one book that matters most, there might be several, or even a dozen.

The body must be credited with an immense fund of know-how.

Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!

No favor can win gratitude from a cat.

I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right.

Usually, the biggest companies are not the most dynamic.