To me, a wicked man who is also eloquent seems the most guilty of them all. He'll cut your throat as bold as brass, because he can dress up murder in handsome words.

The fiercest anger of all, the most incurable, Is that which rages in the place of dearest love.

Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?

Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.

Of all creatures that can feel and think, we women are the worst treated things alive

O Zeus, why is it you have given men clear ways of testing whether gold is counterfeit but, when it comes to men, the body carries no stamp of nature for distinguishing bad from good.

I'd three times sooner go to war than suffer childbirth once.

Mortal fate is hard. You'd best get used to it.

Then based on her own recent experience, the Divine Presence had a cruelly perverse sense of humor and His Grand Plan needed drastic revision.

The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.

Being that rare sort of old girl that she receives Good to her arms without a hint that it might be Better and catches light from any little spot of darkness near her.

Each of us has great gifts, but many of us severely limit ourselves with negative attitudes about our potential.

Apparently, when Twin Peaks was on the air in Spain, something like 50 percent of televisions were tuned to it.

...magic was ugly—-a hard bargain with the universe, a calculus of pain.

Ubiquity is the new exclusivity.

Our nation needs to stop doing for people what they can and should do for themselves. Self reliance means, if anyone will not work, neither should he eat.

I'm attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn't that what attracts anyone?

I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.