In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

If a person wants to be a true Christian, then he will endeavor to know Jesus and press towards being like Him in all things in order to reveal Him to the world.

It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.

We all need help with education to go the right direction in our Life.

What's the first thing I do when I wake up in the morning? Wish I hadn't.

There is in the universe neither center nor circumference.

I've never met anyone who has changed his mind or deepened his faith because he has been confronted with such angry condemnations.

There is wickedness in the intention of wickedness, even though it be not perpetrated in the act.

Without water we are nothing", the traveler thought. "Even an emperor, denied water, would swiftly turn to dust. Water is the real monarch and we are all its slaves.

Obsession and repetition in the process of making things is one constant element in my work.

The life of which meaning one never ponders is not worth living