Truth can hurt so very much.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

The heart knows all the sacredness of happiness.

Desire lies dormant in our hearts

Worship is not just what we do with our lips

It is easier to believe that there was nothing before there was something than that there was something before there was nothing.

If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.

Jesus is coming back - it could even be today.

I'm half Jewish, I'm half black, I look in-between. I dress funny. I play all these different styles of music on one record. It's like, What is he doing?

Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children.

Got the eye of the tiger, the lion of Judah

And she looked at me like she couldn't believe I knew she loved Anne Rice. I guess he didn't know how much she talked or how much I listened.