I don't believe that you can possibly separate expression from thought in an imaginative work. The better a thing is expressed, the more completely it is thought.

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.

The atoms of the earth are formed inside of stars. Nothing really dies, everything is transformed.

A frenzy of activity that had mostly led him in circles: wasn't that a fairly accurate description of lust?

Those patient Hufflepuffs are true and unafraid of toil.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

A country which does not respect the rights of its own citizens will not respect the rights of its neighbours

It looks impossible until you do it, and then you find it is possible.

Without freedom, there is no creation.

People readily believe what they want to believe.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

[We should be] determined... to sever ourselves from the union we so much value rather than give up the rights of self-government... in which alone we see liberty, safety and happiness.