The female form provides the solution in which the essence itself is held; she is passio, and acted upon, the male is actio, the mover.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Meanings of all kinds flow through the figures of women, and they often do not include who she herself is.

If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos.

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

The vocabulary of pleasure depends on the imagery of pain.

The sombre-suited masculine world of the Protestant religion is altogether too much like a gentlemen's club to which the ladies are only admitted on special days.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

When I was young, I did actually model and was much photographed by famous photographers. But I was always a bookworm.

I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.

I try to keep my head on straight and take nothing for granted.

[My grandparents] were from Texas. El Paso. White trash.

When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.

I don't like to have to pan for gold when I read.

To be conscious of gratitude is to acknowledge a gift.

She was working to remind herself of who she was. She was working to remember that somewhere in another place entirely she was known and loved.

It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Now, when I started my theater, the modus operandi was having the actors stare right into the audience.

An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace.