I wanted to analyze how unnecessary it is to collapse a heroine into one specific mold, to give them all the same sparkly fashion, the same tiny figures, and the same homogenized plastic smile.

The statement I wanted to make was that it makes no sense to put these real-life women into one limited template, so why then are we doing it to our fictitious heroines?

We only truly discover who we really are in the face of tragedy and adversity, that being broken does not simply changes us, but reveals us!

It's through our unique flaws that our individuality can be expressed.

Why, I can't help wondering, is God thought to need such ferociousdefence? One might have supposed him amply capable of lookingafter himself.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

I think growing up is difficult and it's a process that I'm always interested in, with kids and adults, they are often on two different universes.

A woman gets angry when a man denies his faults, because she knew them all along. His lying mocks her affection; it is the deceit that angers her more than the faults.

After [Tomas] Jefferson's defeat of [John] Adams in the presidential election of 1800, they didn't communicate with one another for more than a decade.

In our lives, when we do not create something out of total honesty, it cannot last long.

To learn to live from the heart it doesn't just change our feeling about life, it actually changes our life.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

You never really know how good of a leader you are until there is something there is lead us to, toward or through or to overcome.