We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls 'You can have ambition, but not too much'.

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.

We have to be willing to acknowledge the good, or all we bring is bitterness to the bad, and that doesn’t help make things any better.

Darkness is my friend, and my biggest enemy" Temporary dark and deep

I categorize nerds as creative-obsessive. A lot of nerds are creative people who obsess almost unnaturally over the minutiae of things.

Acknowledging the Lord's hand in our lives cultivates gratitude. . . .

It is youth’s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future

The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen.

With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.

Being able to sing all these years has helped me handle life's tragedies.

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.