Most art in the world does not have a capital 'A,' but is a way of turning everyday objects into personal expressions.

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.

four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

Unsatisfied desire is in itself more desirable than any other satisfaction.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong.

I dream of a collaboration that would finally be total, in which the librettist would often think as a composer and the composer as a librettist.

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Every form of life is in its origin not natural, but divine and human; for it must spring from love, just as there can be no reason without spirit.

It’s very difficult for me to appreciate my own songs as I criticise them a lot.

Have therefore zeal to better thyself and then mayst thou have zeal to thy neighbor.