That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out

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.

A writer fills the paper with the pictures of perception, experience, and feeling of real and imaginative lives.

As a viewer, I really want to watch author-backed stories, and there is something amazing about thrillers, the way it captivates your imagination.

Anytime you're in West Virginia or near it, and you sing, 'Take Me Home, Country Roads, ' it's a sight to behold.

I really, deeply believe in the primacy of character. I believe that my job as a writer is to put a believable human being on a page.

I think we have to bottom out. When the studios jump out of the ring, perhaps the artist can get back in.

I don't think my paintings are self-conscious but you feel the consciousness of them. Without them being self-conscious.

I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.

You can choose to be a person who has resulted simply from what has happened, or from what you've chosen to be and do about what has happened.

Whenever the deity contrives misfortunes for a man, he first harms their understanding.

Liberals were intimidated by the Reagan administration and did not want to appear naive by talking about programs that called for government support. I just said, 'The hell with that. I'm out there.'