People used to grow up in small communities where folk wisdom was passed down. But we don't live there anymore. We can't go next door to your aunt and ask her for the answers.

If you have never been called a defiant, incorrigible, impossible woman… have faith. There is yet time.

To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with what others want causes us to be exiled from ourselves.

Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing.

All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

When a great ship is in harbor and moored, it is safe, there can be no doubt. But that is not what great ships are built for.

I hope you will go out and let stories happen to you, and that you will work them, water them with your blood and tears and you laughter till they bloom, till you yourself burst into bloom.

Do not lose heart. We were made for these times.....For years we have been learning, practicing, been in training for...and just waiting to meet on this exact plain of engagement.

A healthy woman is much like a wolf: robust, chock-full, strong life force, life-giving, territorially aware, inventive, loyal, roving.

Be proud of your scars. They have everything to do with your strength, and what you've endured. They're a treasure map to the deep self.

If you have yet to be called an incorrigable, defiant woman, don't worry, there is still time

Philosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Sometimes the reason God doesn't show up to win your battles is because he already put inside of you the power to end it.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?

I guess the rules aren't for everyone.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

Going to law is losing a cow for the sake of a cat.

It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.

If anybody's out of touch in America, if there is this big divide and big disconnect, it's in the Democrat Party and the people of this country.

We know each other in a way that no one else can. We share a history that makes us permanently connected.