Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

There is always a choice. Always. So do not say, you had no choice. Good or bad, doing it or not, is about you, not choices. Always.

Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun.

Novelty does not require intelligence, but ignorance, which is why the young excel in this branch.

If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.

The magic of the pen lies in the concentration of your thoughts upon one object.

Whatever it takes, prove to yourself right now, that you deserve the wildest of dreams that you could ever imagine. BUT........... Only if you are willing to bleed, sweat and work for it.

We could tell Americans everything is okay and nothing is going to happen. The fact is, there is a very real threat.

I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest.

I have learned since that sometimes the things we want most are impossible for us. You may long to come home, yet wander forever.

My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.