i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe each other the world

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.

The Holy Scripture is Spirit-taught words.

Call it what you like, my lady, but it is still spying.

I was the only one who knew the whole truth about Lucas--who he really was, and what we felt for each other. The truth was all I had left of him, and I would have to carry it alone.

Patriotism is the opposite of selfish individualism.

I will not say it is not Christian to make beads of others faults, and tell them over every day; I say it is infernal. If you want to know how the Devil feels, you do know, if you are such an one.

Don't turn on monitization, typically, until it's going to be significant.

In war, discipline is superior to strength; but if that discipline is neglected there is no longer any difference between the soldier and the peasant.

What difference would a clear vision of my principles, values, and ultimate objectives make in the way I spend my time?

Our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them.

Why do people take notice of first snowfalls but not the last days of snow? Remember the last too.