So often feminism is built up as this thing where you have to be perfect. You have to be consistent and you can't ever deviate. That's just not realistic.

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.

Even I, as sick as I am, I would never be you. Even I, sick and depraved, a traveler to the grave, I would never be you.

Probably no purer incitement to hatred existed, Lydia had found, than being told of anyone or anything: you will love him, her or it. The spirit immediately rose up like a fanged cobra.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing.

Sometimes he thought they were all forsaken, every soul on this earth.

People don't die from the old diseases any more. They die from new ones, but that's Progress, isn't it? Isn't it?

I loved the feeling of talking and having somebody really listen to what I have to say. It was like a high or something.

There ain't a body, be it mouse or man, that ain't made better by a little soup.

Look around—there's only one thing of danger for you here—poetry.

I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.

My movies before tend to be just funny. But it wasn't a conscious thing I was looking for at all.