Your life belongs to you and you alone.

Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.

The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.

We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.

To choose to write is to reject silence.

Of course I am not worried about intimidating men. The type of man who will be intimidated by me is exactly the type of man I have no interest in.

If you start thinking about being likable you are not going to tell your story honestly.

There are people who dislike you because you do not dislike yourself.

Our society teaches a woman at a certain age who is unmarried to see it as a deep personal failure. While a man at a certain age who is unmarried has not quite come around to making his pick.

Privilege blinds, because it's in its nature to blind. Don't let it blind you too often. Sometimes you will need to push it aside in order to see clearly.

Culture does not make people. People make culture.

...Every life contains a novel.

A beautiful poem is nothing but a mirror of philosophy through which we can see life’s pure beauty.

Christ's gospel is the only true gospel.

One cannot conceive of grander burial than that which mighty mountains bend, crack and shatter to make. Or a nobler tomb than the great upper basin of Denali.

I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.

Taking a long time to do something not worth doing, that is, doing it inefficiently, seems even more useless.

I don't believe ever in shared office spaces. Peter talks a little bit about this, every good startup is a cult. It's very hard to create a cult if you're sharing space with people.

To a poet the mere making of a poem can seem to solve the problem of truth…but only a problem of art is solved in poetry.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.