I really was more sexual than my classmates.

We are more than just our bodies, but that doesn't mean we have to be shamed for them or our sexuality.

You're a woman, enjoy yourself, and believe that you can do things.

The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies.

I think everyone has their awkward phases. Growing up isn't easy for everyone.

A selfie is a sort of interesting way to reclaim the gaze, right? You're looking at yourself and taking a photo while looking at everyone.

Being part of a patriarchal society, it kind of helped me figure out what I was all about.

I grew up eating street tacos and burritos on the beach, so I like people who can eat and aren't afraid to show it.

Any woman is sexual, absolutely.

I have great childhood memories cow-tipping, going off and getting lost in the bog for hours, and coming home covered in dirt.

I know everyone hates when I say this, they think it's a cliché, but if you don't feel good in the bathing suit you're not going to look good. Confidence is really important.

One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.

Develop a can-do-spirit and be sure you are not suppressed by the naysayers whose daily actions are meant to discourage you from achieving what you believe.

What do you want to trust me with tonight?" A sigh escaped forcefully, waving the white flag that I was a melted, scorched woman at those words. "Anything, " I whispered back.

What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?

Don't Copy What Someone Is Doing, Copy What God Wants You To Do.

The ox longs for the gaudy trappings of the horse; the lazy pack-horse would fain plough. [We envy the position of others, dissatisfied with our own.]

The smartest groups, then, are made up of people with diverse perspectives who are able to stay independent of each other.

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

The hardest thing is never what you think it's going to be.

The critic does his utmost to blight genius in its infancy; that which rises in spite of him he will not see; and then he complains of the decline of literature.