I was a 16-year-old girl at one point, so of course I wrote poetry.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Man’s inner content is the worth of his life

Why is the Chosen One always a he?

This is what happens when you try to help people. You get screwed.

The question of whether one alleges the Superiority or Inferiority of any given race is irrelevant; racism has only one psychological root: the racist's sense of his own Inferiority.

If you want to fly with the eagles you can't hang out with the crows.

It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

To make an idea become a reality is a process that fascinates me; otherwise it stays just an idea.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we’ve got the least excuse for it.

Living is a pretty grim joke, but a joke just the same.