It was a silly, silly dream, being unhappy.

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.

Do more listening than talking

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand: for thou know not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.

Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.

Real vampires don't get pain, we give it." Florence da Vinci, Real Vampires Live Large

I know gray areas too well. I write for silent audiences.

A flu shot is the worst thing you can do.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

The path to holiness lies through questioning everything.

My family was very, very receptive to all; all races, religions.

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.