No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.

Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.

Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.

To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.

Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.

But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed.

People cry out against the sinner, yet it is not the sinful, but the stupid, who are our shame. There is no sin except stupidity.

You are so much more, than your orientation, you know it and I know it.

There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.

Enthusiasm: If you don’t FEEL enthusiastic, ACT enthusiastic. Soon, you’ll BE enthusiastic. Double your enthusiasm and you’ll probably double your income.

To seek in a Sheep five feet when there is but four.

I think the big evolutionary step for me is directing my own movies.

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.

A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

Nobody in the world is completely dependent on another person, but we are all interdependent.