I often wish I'd got on better with your father,' he said.

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.

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

Our heart glows, and secret unrest gnaws at the root of our being. Dealing with the unconscious has become a question of life for us.

Scientists announced that they have located the gene for alcoholism. Scientists say they found it at a party, talking way too loudly.

Look, if Givenchy is going to lend you a dress, I'm not going to turn it down. I would wear that dress to just go out and buy a pint of milk if they would lend it to me.

There’s a difference between listening passively and listening aggressively. To listen with your heart, you have to listen actively.

Don't try to make me grow up before my time.

Dance like nobody's looking.

I'm having a lot more fun living life. My new motto is "plerking" - I play and work at the same time.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.