I work so hard and so many hours, and I've done that for years and years and years.

I'm not overweight. I flucuate between chubby and curvy.

I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, picture-hanging man. I don't care if he takes prescription drugs for cholesterol or hair loss.

There is no sunrise so beautiful that it is worth waking me up to see it.

I have a thick skin, which comes from being a not-really-skinny, dark-skinned Indian woman. I haven’t fit in every place, and so I’m kind of used to resistance.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

If you are going to ask your crush for their phone number, you are one of the small group of women I am so jealous of.

Running is a quick trigger for a good mood. The great thing about endorphins, you don't have to be in great shape to get them.

Sometimes you just have to put on lip gloss and pretend to be psyched.

There's the psychotic ambitious side of myself that wants a fashion line and my own network and be like a combination of Oprah and Gwen Stefani. And have a perfume. Definitely a perfume.

Right now, I'm hankering for new adventures... Ninety percent of the time I'm having romantic-comedy fantasies in which I'm wearing little pencil skirts and hurrying down to the subway.

she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.

Beauty is like success: we can't love it for long.

Sometimes we have to inspire and encourage ourselves, through our personal narrative. And we start with what we know.

It is not the victory that makes the joy of noble hearts; but the combat.

If you have extraordinary bread and extraordinary butter, it's hard to beat bread and butter.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

The meaning of life can be revealed but never explained.

Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf.

I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.