I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

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.

Making someone responsible for your misery also makes them responsible for your happiness. Why give that power to anyone but yourself?

The Rest of Our Life Is Going To Be The Best of Our Life!

It just be life, that's all. Ain't nothin' happened to you, ain't happened to most women whether they care to admit it or not. You strong, Babygirl. You a woman. You gotta be.

As long as I count the votes, what are you going to do about it?

Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.

Parents have to get over the idea that their children belong just to them; children are a family affair.

When kids can't afford to see it anymore maybe we'll have a whole resurgence of garage bands all over America and this New Wave thing will start to mean something on a grass roots level.

From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself

I knew I was dog meat. Luckily, I'm the high-priced dog meat that everybody wants. I'm the good-quality dog meat. I'm the Alpo of the NBA.

I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man.