Know that there is nothing you can't aspire to do. Take offense. Bide your time. Pick your battles. Take revenge when you can - and never pull the ladder up after you.

By judging differently and by recognizing their female experiences and bringing them to bear on the Supreme Court's decision, Ginsburg and O'Connor both made it legitimate for people to be different.

It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay." - China Sorrows -

She was tall and dark-skinned and looked like a Nigerian sculpture. She moved like a lioness, her every step bristling with suppressed violence.

The novel is a prose narrative of some length that has something wrong with it.

My early and invincible love of reading I would not exchange for the treasures of India.

Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.

I would love to have my own lingerie line.

The theories of the major philosophers of the 18th century secular enlightenment were biblical and theological in spite of themselves.

Anyone who goes on 'The X Factor' to make big money will be in for a big shock.

My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase.