more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will.

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.

To your parents you are still that innocent baby, and sometimes even you will need your father's hand and your mother's lap.

You are the one who takes the peace away from yourself. You are the one who’s harming yourself.

No one can do everything, but everyone can do something.

Love is here.” Chamuel pointed to her chest. “If you can’t feel it, Lilly, that’s on you.

Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions.

Faith is the fountain, the foundation and the fosterer of obedience.

Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear successful offspring.

American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

I want people to think about the connection between mothers and daughters. I like the idea of continuity of life and generations.

Most workouts are way too aggressive. Thousands of lunges wear out the body. It's not healthy for the one with the bad back, bad knees, diabetes. I'm never going to do that.