Poetry's object is truth.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Does a rake deserve to possess anything of worth, since he chases everything in skirts and then imagines he can successfully hide his shame by slandering [women in general]?

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

Belief is better than anything else and it is best when rapt - above paying its respects to anybody's doubt whatsoever.

Metrical geometry is thus a part of descriptive geometry, and descriptive geometry is all geometry.

I like to approach every day like it's my first, so this morning when I woke up I covered my body with red gelatin.

There's a massive part of me that can be bold and courageous...very strong and very assertive and independent, almost to a fault sometimes.

The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

Revolutions are not push button affairs; rather, they evolve only if there exists a reservoir of hope and grievance that can be galvanized into popular action.

So much of my writing process is trying to eliminate any kind of shame or fear of the thoughts that I'm having.

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of mankind.