Leave me if you must, but be faithful to me if you are with me.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

Sometimes you have to trust grownups, perhaps more so when they are not there to actually supervise you.

This illustrates an important truth, namely, that the worse your logic, the more interesting the consequences to which it gives rise.

I get excited about room-service menus! I really do.

Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat do to offend?

Laws and traditions that hold back women, hold back entire societies.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

I was big time into Barbie.

My son was autistic, and he suffered from seizure disorder every 5 to 10 days. He would suffer a seizure that would last 45 seconds to a minute and sleep for 12 hours.

She gave 'The Dream Carrier' to Max as if words alone could nourish him.

All artists are now free to express their own personality.