I have brought him [my son] up to think that purity and virtue are both masculine and femanine gender, and that God's angels are not necessarily all she ones.

But I am a-eppisodin' and a-eppisodin' to a length and depth almost onprecedented and onheard of - and to resoom and go on.

High trees cast long shadows. The happier and more blessed a woman's life is, the more duz she feel for them that are less blessed than she.

I love to see folks use reason if they have got any.

you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.

And then I sez—‘How is anybody a-goin’ to live pattern lives, when they are a-starvin' to death? And how is anybody a-goin’ to enjoy religion when they are a-chokin’?

Let us runaway to the aspirations we dream of in our childish moments, where magic is real and we are unstoppable.

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

Bringing you closer to the fragile edge of living is the job of a writer.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

I would not choose to go where I would be afraid to die, nor could I bear to live without a good hope for hereafter.

I'm a tough girl, and I can go without a shower bot a week and be fine with that. But I will not sleep on dirty sheets.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

How horrifying that morning when you wake up and your first thought is not of the person who has left. That’s when you know, I will never die of a broken heart.

I look back at my twenties and see that I was much less confident.

Action is the difference-make r. Remember that. If you’re ready to take a big step forward, seek an open door as if your life depended on it. When you find it, go in bold and make it count.