I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is obvious to everyone else.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Where the frontier of science once was is now the centre.

Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself, ' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?

Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, for the rest of our days till the end of our lives.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

Sound is the vocabulary of nature.

One can do without solutions. Only the questions matter. We may share them or turn away from them.

Some directors are very free and some directors are very specific. It seemed like doing a play.

Death shows up to remind us to live more fully.

I think it's a universal thing in every family, that people have their own specific versions of pivotal events or even small memories.