I [who] am perpetually making notes in the margin of my mind for some final statement.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

A person who won’t do it has no advantage over someone who can’t do it.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

Money has much more power down the ballot.

With knowledge grows doubt.

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

I'm the woman who used to think that middle-age spread was a cocktail dip.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

Should we cry when the pope dies, my request we should cry if they cried when we buried Malcom X

If we see only the problems, we will be defeated; but if we see the possibilities in the problems, we can have victory.