Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

Naama Yehuda ‏@NaamaYehuda · 42s42 seconds ago Sometimes when the path is obscured all we can do is find the best way through the current moment and hope things will clear up ahead.

Maybe one day we’ll find that place, where you and I could be together and we’ll catch our dreams within the waves of change. So hear me, you are not alone.

It's not about changing "them, " it's about healing YOU.

My MOTIVATION was struggling..I got Tired of it!

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

May thy ball lie in green pastures, and not in still waters.

If there is no God, then man sometimes thinks he is god, and sometimes tries to live like a god.

I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.

But if two and two and fifty make a million...

There is only one purpose of pentecost; that is to effectively evangelize lost souls.