If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

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.

You are more to me than any of them has any idea

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him

He that is afraid to shake the dice will never throw a six.

Design cannot rescue failed content.

A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.

If you don't write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has lived your life.

His money is twice tainted: taint yours and taint mine.

I don't want to do something, if I don't feel like I can do a good job serving the material.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.