I love the creative process, of getting to create your own show or your own movie, whatever it is you want to do, and have the resources to try and make that happen.

My best piece of advice I could give to all of the women and girls is really to honor and love your own uniqueness and to celebrate that and to really work hard not to try to be something you're not.

If you consciously send negative energy toward someone, then what you send is exactly what you will attract upon yourself in your own life.

There's a reason women are pregnant for nine months; by the end, you're ready to have this baby.

To me, being a woman in 2016 means having a voice, being unique, being true to yourself, and finding a way to be of service.

I'm open to whatever the universe wants to bring me.

The only thing that limits you right now is you.

I feel everything more deeply. Every action I take, I think of her first. That's a big change for me. That - and no sleep!

I'm a huge karaoke fan. Oh my God. I'm one of those girls who don't give the mic away. It's a problem. I'm a closeted pop star.

Your surroundings may change but your essence and your personality pretty much stay the same.

Ladies, please remember that every single picture you see in a magazine is airbrushed...we do not look like that. Love yourself!

the power to cause pain is the only power that matters, the power to kill and destroy, because if you can't kill then you are always subject to those who can, and nothing and one will ever save you.

I have a theory that the answers to all of life's major questions can found in a John Mayer song.

No disaster is worse than being discontented.

Water. Oil pales beside it, and the value of the land itself is measured by it.

People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense-words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions-words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History

I didn't play the game right because I saw a reward at the end of the tunnel.

I felt like I'd been swimming so hard, and the water growing warmer and warmer the closer I got to the top. I wasn't there yet, but now I could see the surface, rippling just beyond my fingers.

As for what you're calling hard luck - well, we made New England out of it. That and codfish.

In sports you often become part of something greater than yourself.

It's also interesting to notice that most of the best Finnish speculative writers are women.