Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

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.

Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.

There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.

When an inner situation is not made conscious it appears outside as fate.

One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

I would blossom if I were a rose.

I was never the 'babe,' so I knew I'd never get those big roles. I'd always be the best friend or the quirky sidekick.

There's an ancient tension between wanting to savor the world as it is and wanting to improve on the world as given.

When I was shooting Drive Me Crazy, I wanted to go out with the rest of the cast and stay up late and play air hockey. I just wanted to have fun.

inside us, a flower taken whole, a field built inside.