Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

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.

In prison, you learn to count each day and each moment. You even count the bad 'meals' and the unbearable ones.

Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this - no dog exchanges bones with another.

Everybody talks about finding your voice. Do your homework and your voice will find you.

There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

Making chocolate is a way of life, not a profession.

I can't stand outside myself and be anybody else.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

I know not my own heart if it be not absolutely free.

I'm very happy because I won a lot. I've won races and lived in a world that just gave me joy, so I remember it very positively.