Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

Things which do not grow and change are dead things.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our songs travel the earth. We sing to one another. Not a single note is ever lost and no song is original. They all come from the same place and go back to a time when only the stones howled.

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

When we are young, the words are scattered all around us. As they are assembled by experience, so also are we, sentence by sentence, until the story takes shape.

some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense.

Of course, English is a very powerful language, a colonizer's language and a gift to a writer. English has destroyed and sucked up the languages of other cultures - its cruelty is its vitality.

Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the other.

How can we tell people "never give up" when some haven't even started yet.

Acknowledging mistakes and learning from them are the first steps.

There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion.

Of course, in our grade school, in those days, there were no organized sports at all. We just went out and ran around the school yard for recess.

Have you something to do to-morrow; do it to-day.

Generally there are always a few things that get left off for some reason or other, although the criteria for inclusion vary from project to project.

The perception of duration itself presupposes a duration of perception.

A man does not go to a woman to get his strength; he goes to her to offer it.

You promote your films; it's part of your job. You do the magazine covers and stuff, and then I try to live a really normal life. I definitely don't try to make it into any more craziness than it is.

I spend my own money, not other people's money.