We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

DEATH: "Mostly they aren't too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear."MORPHEUS: "And I am far more terrible than you, sister.

A marvelous feeling -- that you love someone deeply -- and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely.

Having your own church doesn't make you a good guy. It only makes you tax-exempt.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

How many fine thoughts has every man had! How few fine thoughts are expressed!

I have a soul that like an ample shield Can take in all, and verge enough for more.