We shall be the mouthpieces of the divine spirit—

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

To be wise, know yourself.

Every morning is a fresh breath and blessings.

If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.

When we had the girls, my daughter Jenny gave us like a Bible from my daughter of, "Don't feed them this; don't feed them that, if she says this, don't say that," It was crazy!

All I did was to look at what the universe showed me, to let my brush bear witness to it.

I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.

You don't make a movie, the movie makes you.

I love Barbra Streisand. Anybody who knows me knows I just love her, love her, love her!

There were many good actresses in my time like Jane Powell and Debbie Reynolds, but I was the only dancer.

We must now understand that our own well-being can be achieved only through the well-being of the entire natural world around us.