I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

Minority art, vernacular art, is marginal art. Only on the margins does growth occur.

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep

Ignorance is not bad faith. But persistence in ignorance is.

As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frog in jest. But the frogs die in earnest.

To act in a way both sexist and racist, to maintain one's class privilege, it is only necessary to act in the customary, ordinary, usual, even polite manner.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That's the trouble with women, too.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Real artists, it seems to me, are those who don't repeat themselves.

Let them ask who you are but do not let others dictate who you should be.

Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Perfection is a paradigm meant to keep us striving and learning and growing. Like a wondrous sunset, perfection may be beyond our reach, but it is within our view and well worth seeking after.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

We get so caught up in what a man isn't. It's what he is that counts.

Privacy - like eating and breathing - is one of life's basic requirements.

You can't please everyone, and you can't make everyone like you.

The only thing on my mind right now is trying to win the whole thing.

For every look at self, take 10 looks at Christ.