Though sad at heart, to sing joyfully.

A woman with a mind is fit for any task.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Just as women's bodies are softer than men's, so their understanding is sharper.

If it has to be that wars and battles are begun for many reasons and quarrels, then they should also be avoided and shunned by better and more valid reasons.

Only the dead fail to reach out with both hands.

there is no fire without smoke but there is often smoke without fire.

The foolish rush to end their lives. Only the steadfast soul survives.

How many women are there ... who because of their husbands' harshness spend their weary lives in the bond of marriage in greater suffering than if they were slaves among the Saracens?

Poetry's object is truth.

You only confuse hope with power once in life.

The tongue may hide the truth but the eyes—never!

Apparently officers are not ‘men’. Officers are ‘officers’.

It's hard to be taken seriously if you're a young, female artist making pop music; you never know how people are going to react.

As the child outlives the father,so must the character bury the author.

When people direct insults at me, I can take it.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

I expect more people from China and Asia to end up in the NBA.

I certainly have played women who have a pioneer spirit and longing for adventure.

For me, whenever I'm physical it spins my mind and whenever there's a lot going on I put my gloves on or I wrestle somebody and I feel zen.