We thought we were running away from the grownups, and now we are the grownups.

But nothing is more opaque than absolute transparency.

I hope that people will finally come to realize that there is only one 'race' - the human race - and that we are all members of it.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

Nature is to zoos as God is to churches.

If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia.

Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain.

People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly.

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

a full moon is a flashlight so everyone can see your drama!

Your own need to be shines out of any dream or creation you imagine.

When you are obliged to make a statement that you know will cause displeasure, you must say it with every appearance of sincerity; this is the only way to make it palatable.

You don't need a reason to forgive... If you want to go on with someone, that is what you do.

I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books.