When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.

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.

Step beyond the scopes and limits because a narrow minded person has such boundaries of thinking “I cannot, but I must

The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails.

The military is already sexually integrated.

Build your house with the stones they hurled at you

When you're an older woman [in a movie] you tend to be in - how did you put it? You're the brunt of the joke.

I work better the more I am confined and the less I am distracted. My ultimate place would be a closet.

The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock.

One of the perks of being a psychologist is access to tools that allow you to carry out the injunction to know thyself.

Cowards die many times; a brave man dies but once.

There are emotional ties to family that are connected to the sexual experience for women that are very different than men which does make it harder for women to date and not get hurt.