So long as you write what you wish to write, that is all that matters; and whether it matters for ages or only for hours, nobody can say.

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.

I asked my instructor how I could cut ten strokes off my score. He told me to quit on hole 17!

What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

I wished only to be set down in Canada, and take one honest walk there as I might in Concord woods of an afternoon.

The greasier, the better.

Beauty lies in harmony, not in contrast; and harmony is refinement; therefore, there must be a fineness of the senses if we are to appreciate harmony.

Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.

It is when a people forget God, that tyrants forge their chains.

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish himself into exhausting pace, and then at the end, punish himself even more.

It is your choices that make you uniquely you.