Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is commonly thought small.

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.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

Misty is the color of rain on a window.

Life is like an ocean, jump right in.

My advice to writers: thank goodness we can revise and adjust and tighten and rethink before going public with our words. Revision is our friend. Our best friend. I love revision.

And even when I was close to defeat, I rose to my feet.

I realize as you age the less makeup you wear the younger you look.

We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

I'm an egotistical actress, the shows I like are the ones where I have lots to do. The one where I got shot I - it was particularly memorable for me for a lot of reasons.

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day.

Bring something new, something beautiful and something filled with light into the world.