I do not consider my deeds or my knowledge to be a great thing. The only fact is — and I can say this honestly — that I love learning and a solitary life.

Speak gently but look out for your rights.

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

... one could find plenty of intelligent women in the world if one were willing to look.

These are my habits and the way I spend my life: studying literature.

One of the greatest gifts from God is the eternal perspective. It is a level of fearlessness, a level of understanding where one can experience even emotional harmony with God.

People don't get to our ages without having pasts. I'm more interested in the future.

You don't want to move in with someone and find out that they don't have auto or health insurance. That's a rude awakening.

Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.

Whatever is about you that is translated into your art, that's gonna keep you completly original and fresh and I just think that, that's just the best advice I can give, to an artist creatively.

Women are terrified of their sexuality because they've got so much of it, and we live in a society that says they don't.

The first thing I can really tell you is I really love the work.

Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood.

Whenever there is authority, there is a natural inclination to disobedience.

The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.