Liberation does not come from outside.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Explore your inner creative genius through the medium you love and enjoy the journey!

An artist has been defined as a neurotic who continually cures himself with his art.

The closest friends you'll have are the ones you'd take a bullet for, but they're the ones you constantly feel you could put a bullet in as well.

In the recognition of loving lies the answer to despair.

I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.

She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for.

l can do very well without God both in my life and in my painting, but l cannot, ill as I am, do without something which is greater than l, which is my life — the power to create.

To the medieval mind the possibility of doubt did not exist.