You can be two things if you're a woman, Dolores. Betty Crocker or a floozy. Just remember your place - even if it kills you.

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.

Her shut-eyed smile transformed itself into something else: the smile of someone brave and knowing, someone whose pain had made her wise.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of life's longing for itself.

Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.

You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?

What if I don’t like adventure?Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That’s what life’s all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.

Scratch the surface in a typical boardroom and we're all just cavemen with briefcases, hungry for a wise person to tell us stories.

Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

It seemed cruel for a day to dawn so fair and end so foul as this one promised to.

Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time.

Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.

The last person I'd date is some rich kid who's had everything handed to her on a plate. Give me a normal girl any day.

Music will save the world.

You and I love understanding American Revolution, but let's also understand the digital revolution, because that makes us more comfortable with our technology.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.