Too many women are forced to abort by poverty, by their menfolk, by their parents. A choice is only possible if there are genuine alternatives.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

It took six days from start to finish for the totality of Creation

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.

Very few people say no to the ­Grammys.

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.

All athletes, without fail, are potentially great and good. A great athlete is a little man tirelessly inspired.

You are a unique person, just like everybody else!!

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.