I don't want the success to go away. I don't want it to seem unearned.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

You are to weak you need a prowl to protect you... I mean that A Prowl must be your friend (get it?? Prowl film!)

I'm alive with love in my heart.. I'm grateful for each moment.. With a little patience and god's grace I know everything in my life will work out on its own time!

The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.

Now I got my foot - through the door - and I ain't goin' no where.

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

I never leave my house. Then I don't have to put a bra on, and I don't have to change my pants.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

I'm so familiar with what Malcolm X wrote at certain stages of his own life and development.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

So few women have any clear idea of the power their ordinary beauty holds over so many of us men.