The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.

As I studied the remians of book pages, scatered among the ashes, my heart sank.

His speech is a burning fire.

All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

May I hold myself in compassion. May I meet the suffering and ignorance of others with compassion.

The school depends not on man, or any set of men. God planted it, and we are but gardeners to take care of it.

One of the great things about acting is you can do things that in real life would get you in trouble. I think that's something I figured out pretty early on.

When you're tanner, you feel hotter and sexier. You should try it

I'm maybe not quite as sharp as I used to be.

It's the heart that really matters in the end.