You can be strapped to the most stable chair and still feel the world give way beneath you.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Every wound is a word.

The individual cannot exist outside of the many spheres of the deeply interconnected webs of life

The way I saw it, one of the single greatest advantages of being in a relationship was that you got to eat off the other person's plate.

Whatever action we take may influence the course of civilization.

we are all half fool, half wise, there is no wisdom without foolishness and no pride without shame .

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

I could name many women who travel or who work with America as a theme. I think it was more not being able to name canonical women, whose work is part of the American canon.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

Jesus made me, so he should save me from pity, sympathy and idiots discussing me.