Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

The situation is like this: they hired our parents to destroy this world, and now they'd like to put us to work rebuilding it, and -- to add insult to injury -- at a profit.

I love to cook. I spend weekends reading cookbooks - it's really my relaxation.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

People Who Do Things exceed my endurance; God, for a man that solicits insurance!

I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night.

Nobody can do everything well, so learn how to delegate responsibility to other winners and then hold them accountable for their decisions.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

You cannot be brave without fear.

I'd rather sink with my own vision than float with somebody else's.