Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

A simple grateful thought turned heavenwards is the most perfect prayer.

Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

Every child has the capacity to be everything.

Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better.

Things are not quite so simple always as black and white.

You have to be grown up, really grown up, not merely in years, to understand your parents.

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.

Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for

Obsessions are the only things that matter.

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.

If you are thinking today is nothing to do for me then there is some laziness in your mind and you don’t try to elaborate your thinking for future.

We can change the world if we restore humanity to businesses.

It would be cool to be invisible, but I'm afraid of what people would say about me if they didn't know I was there. Some things are better left unknown.

Education is anything that we do for the purpose of taking advantage of the experience of some one else.

I love Obama because he is proof all black people don't look alike. Nobody every told me, 'Good morning, Mr. President.' We don't all look alike.

I hope his kidneys fail, how about that? He needs a waterboarding, that's what he needs.

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.