I wanted to know what happened when two people felt it. Would it divide the hurt in two, make it lighter to bear, the way feeling someone's joy seemed to double it?

Gazing into the mirror, I saw myself as I was-a black silhouette in the room, a woman whose darkness had completely leaked through.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

All my life I've thought I needed someone to complete me, now I know I need to belong to myself.

Sunset is the saddest light there is.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I have noticed that if you look carefully at people's eyes the first five seconds they look at you, the truth of their feelings will shine through for just an instant before it flickers away.

It's something everybody wants-for someone to see the hurt done to them and set it down like it matters.

It takes a bee 10,000,000 trips to collect enough nectar to make 1 pound of honey.

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

You know, when you're in public life, everything you do is out there. But I am proud to stand on my record.

Choice is the declaration by self that a certain ideal of self shall be realized.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Like a circle in a spiral Like a wheel within a wheel Never ending or beginning On an ever-spinning reel As the images unwind Like the circles that you find In the windmills of your mind.

Oral history interviews allow us to document and chronicle people's stories; stories that might otherwise not be included in the historical record.

To succeed in life, you must have the courage to be hated.

Charlemagne either died or was born or did something with the Holy Roman Empire in 800.

I like to hang out clothes on windy days. Sometimes that's all I feel like. A sheet on a line.