a lesson must be lived in order to be learned and the clarity to see and stop this now that is what i've earned

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.

Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.

We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.

Patriarchy is like the elephant in the room that we don't talk about, but how could it not affect the planet radically when it's the superstructure of human society?

I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.

Good writing is always new.

All animals understand love and affection, but only man shows the propensity to place himself into the shoes of another life form

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I'm not a person who can spontaneously say funny things.

I don't have fights with actors. In absolute honesty, I've never fought with any actor ever.

Woo! It's so cold, I think we may be twin sisters now," he said through rattling teeth.

O God, how lovely still is life!

I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one.

We always worry about the wrong things, don't we?

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day.