Love had a thousand shapes.

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.

There are women who only look at another woman's shoes and never at her face.And others who always look women in the face and only occasionally at their shoes.

By the time you have a platform for saying what you want, you’ve already become part of the system. It’s how it works.

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

The 19thc hatred of Realism is Caliban's enraged reaction to seeing his own face in the mirror. The 19thc rejection of Romanticism is Caliban's fury at not seeing his face reflected in the mirror.

The puma... the cat... is not just about power and speed and strength... but it is also a very elegant animal. That's what we've tried to reflect in our products.

too much safety is abhorrent to the nature of a human being.

And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness.

I started watching The Stooges religiously and obsessively when I was probably about four or five years old till around the age of 18.

I need to be looking at what's important in North Carolina, and you better believe that's what I will do.

Like, my house has a nice view, because, you know, I was on 'Friends.'