This business of womanhood is a heavy burden.

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your perception...you see what is, where most people see what they expect.

I was not sorry when my brother died.

It’s bad enough . . . when a country gets colonized, but when the people do as well! That’s the end, really, that’s the end.

Can you cook books and feed them to your husband? Stay at home with your mother. Learn to cook and clean. Grow vegetables.

Everything about her spoke of alternatives and possibilities that if considered too deeply would wreak havoc with the neat plan I had laid out for my life.

We co-existed in peaceful detachment

What it is, ” she sighed, “to have to choose between self and security.

She thinks she is white, ' they used to sneer, and that was as bad as a curse.

Real geniuses would like that what we think of ourselves is true.

Be kind to others—not because they deserve kindness—but because you deserve inner peace.

Give, and thou shalt receive. Give thoughts of cheer,Of courage and success, to friend and stranger.And from a thousand sources, far and near,Strength will be sent thee in thy hour of danger.

Somebody is going to have to do fancy footwork to make sure Elizabeth and John Edwards get their prime-time shot .

I do find stories - or literary fiction - an apt form for analyzing the world. And especially for trying to imagine the other. An agenda, again, that seems more important now than ever.

The sooner you start being fearless, the better.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

None can destroy iron, but its own rust can! Likewise none can destroy a person, but its own mindset can!

Follow your heart and your mind will create.

Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.