and even a tea party means apprehension, breakage

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success.

Motivation is like quicksand. if you stand still for too long you will sink. When you start working towards your goal the start always hard until you aren't sinking anymore.

We were both smiling, in that bittersweet way one does when imagining something the heart longs for and the head would dread.

One day you men will learnto pay attention and all the world willtremble.

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty.

I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our everything, quite frankly.

It wasn't the first time. This happened to Dennis Kucinich. It happened to Jesse Jackson. They did it even to Howard Dean, creating the Dean scream. This is how they [democrats] work.

Each person in the world is different and has their own beautiful sound in the symphony of life.

Secularism is a term interpreted in many different ways by different people. For me, it has always been something very simple - putting India First

Governments lie; bankers lie; even auditors sometimes lie: gold tells the truth.