You have to defend your honor. And your family.

Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.

If language were liquid, it would be rushing in. Instead here we are in a silence more eloquent than any word could ever be.

To me, a feminist belong in the same category as a humanist or an advocate for human rights. I don't see why someone who's a feminist should be thought of differently.

I always thought that if I was popular I must be doing something wrong.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

There are no rules in fights with girls. Just hurting.

I was always inventing characters and making up stories.

I dont think gender is aesthetically defining for me.

I had some fears as a kid, but I was also relatively fearless. Maybe that's a result of living half the time in reality and the other half in fantasy.

We do not fear death.We fear not having lived enough.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

It was not the story of design or clothes, it was the fantasy of women that made me want to work in fashion.

By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching.

I never had the dream to be a great designer. My focus was just to do beautiful things.

The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.

If the economy grows, housing gets better, quicker.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

Once you have done a man a service, what more reward would you have? Is it not enough to have obeyed the laws of your own nature, without expecting to be paid for it?

I feel strongly about helping fundraise and donating to causes that help children, animals, and the environment. I wish I could do more!