Nordie's at Noon is an honest and inspiring testament to [these authors'] experiences which, I am completely confident... will inspire thousands of women as it inspired me.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it's less good than the one you had before.

This diagnosis is a reminder that this is the life you've got. And you're not getting another one. Whatever has happened, you have to take this life and treasure and protect it.

It's just a part of our nature to hope.

... all things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act.

You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.

A lot of people have great hope, and a lot of people who have great hope live. And, some of them who have great hope die. So it's not that hope is going to save you.

Tabloid news is tabloid news.

We were never a family that had a lot. We had enough, but not a lot.

And an ocean can swallow you, even when you can swim.

Once we go beyond this and start to open up and question and experience things in a different way, we can move forward.

The Republicans just want to bankrupt the government. They think that the government should do nothing, except maybe support the military. So terrorism is perfect for them.

the Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite--those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

Having a very complicated life, or a lot of problems, or a lot of flaws, is always great to play.

To be a Christian, you can’t go with the flow. You have to go by the Word of God.

Writing's not always a pleasure to me, but if I'm not writing every other pleasure loses its savour.

Death is the great adventure beside which moon landings and space trips pale in insignificance.