It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

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.

Magic lies in between things, between the day and the night, between yellow and blue, between any two things.

It was the literary equivalent of a brown paper bag.

What we do to others, we do to ourselves..

The key to living a moral life is this: Do nothing in private that you would be ashamed to discuss openly with your mother.

Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.

I don't really care about being right, I just care about success.

As a director, I know everybody's job, and I know how to do it. I can smell bullshit when someone's telling me it can't be done, because I've seen it done a hundred thousand times.

I use photography as a way to help me understand why I am here. The camera helps me to see.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.