There is no slave, after all, like a wife...Poor women, poor slaves All married women, all children and girls who live in their father's house are slaves.

The weight that hangs upon our eyelids - is of lead.

We are divorced, North from South, because we have hated each other so. If we could only separate politely, and not have a horrid fight for divorce.

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding.

Of all our sorrows, memory is the worst.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Brutal men with unlimited power are the same all over the world

Richmond has fallen - and I have no heart to write about it... They are too many for us. Everything lost in Richmond, even our archives. Blue-black is our horizon.

Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!

Forgiveness is indifference. Forgiveness is impossible while love lasts.

Darkest of all Decembers ever has my life known, Sitting here by the embers, stunned, helpless, alone.

This isn't your world. It's your parents. Your world is still out there, waiting to be discovered. Always remember that.

That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

but you do not think much about the stars. They are always there. Look at them when you have a moment.

I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.

Art is embedded in nature and they who can extract it, have it.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

When the flower opens, the bees will come.

I was raised Irish Catholic and went to Holy Names Academy, an all-girl's private Catholic school. I loved the nuns there and I love them to this day.

If you want change, you've got to stick with it.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.