Indeed, I thought, slipping the silver into my purse, it is remarkable, remembering the bitterness of those days, what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about.

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.

Abandon hope.

If the love is true, it will wait until the dream becomes a reality. True love also gives strength to a dream.

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

No matter how famous you are, there's always somebody more famous than you.

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

We want to be on the offensive without being offensive.

I'm good at picking friends.

Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?

I've always had a fighter's spark in me. I was born with it. I think it's in my blood.