We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

You are my heaven. I just never knew I’d find it here on Earth.

The Gospel is like a caged lion; you don't have to defend it - just let it out of the cage.

I don’t want to know anything, and I want to know it all

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

I'm drowning my brother drowning.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

You need to dream nicer dreams. I come from a world that is a much nicer dream.

Working in this industry, I have been exposed to so many products and now realize more than ever how cruel and unnecessary animal testing is.

Knowing is knowing that knowing is not knowing.

The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him.