It was as if when he left he'd taken some of the screws that held her together and now all she could do was walk around all wonky and falling apart

Who, being loved, is poor?

For how could she dream for more when he was her every dream come true?

It's important to learn to laugh at ourselves, don't take life too seriously.

I just put my feet in the ground and move them around.

I want a woman to feel the cut of the scissors in the clothes.

People need to believe that they can participate fully in the decisions that affect their lives and have a stake in the societies in which they live

Passions are less mischievous than boredom, for passions tend to diminish and boredom increase.

Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.