Readers need to stop assuming characters are white if race isn't explicitly defined.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

The only true wisdom is in knowing that with love you can win the world.

Heavy hearts like heavy clouds in the sky are best relieved by the letting of water.

Do no cheat thy Heart and tell her, 'Grief will pass away.'

Struggle is the meaning of life; defeat or victory is in the hands of God. But struggle itself is man’s duty and should be his joy.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

My home...It is my retreat and resting place from wars, I try to keep this corner as a haven against the tempest outside, as I do another corner in my soul.

If genius has any common denominator, I would propose breadth of interest and the ability to construct fruitful analogies between fields.

Faith is not a function of stupidity but a frequent cause of it.