...he did not want me to seek the whys, because there are some things that happen for which we can formulate no whys, for which whys simply do not exist and, perhaps, are not necessary.

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.

She lives on the fumes of whiskey and the iron in the blood of her prey.

Remember to take in and harvest light yet also allow yourself to cast shadows where needed, like a tree. Then, in return, your shadow will support your light.

I would rather have a free bottle in front of me than a pre-frontal lobotomy

I do not like assassins, or men of low character.

Because God loves us, he lets us know exactly how to have access to him.

It's amazing how difficult it is for a man to understand something if he's paid a small fortune not to understand it.

The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Privacy I think gets invaded when you start being honest.

HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.