Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

A tough hide with a tender heart is a goal that all leaders must have.

Our faces were no more than ten inches apart, but she was light years away from me.

A selfish person says, hey, me and my four at home and no more and whatever happens to you is OK. But it can't be that way. It cannot be that way.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

Science should always be in the business of attempting to disprove itself.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till the morning.

I am a great believer that all the primary research has to be done before principle writing begins. I'm a huge advocate of plotting.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.