Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.

I would rather be a bad feminist than no feminist at all.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

Some women being empowered does not prove the patriarchy is dead. It proves that some of us are lucky.

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.

People do terrible things all the time, but we don’t regularly disown our humanity. We disavow the terrible things.

You have to be consistent. You have to be yourself. You have to be committed to what you're doing. You have to not be afraid to be ambitious.

I am a bad feminist and a good woman. I am trying to become better in how I think and say and do - without abandoning what makes me human.

When you can’t find someone to follow, you have to find a way to lead by example.

We have this cultural obsession with work and productivity as if we're better people if we don't stop and take some time for ourselves.

Passion belongs to nothing and reason belong to many things that’s why reason it is better than passion.

I had to hope there was more to life than death. More to living than not dying.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act.

I love money, I love women, I like to work hard and I don't use drugs.

God made life, and God alone can tell us its meaning.

Poverty is not created by poor people. It is produced by our failure to create institutions to support human capabilities.

The sense of all stylistic change is that the underlying view of the world changes.

One basketball to rule them all,” Leo muttered.

Obama considers himself above deal-making and back-slapping, political necessities he often delegates to Vice President Joe Biden and other lesser sorts.