A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.

My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.

You can stand tall without standing on someone. You can be a victor without having victims.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They're what make the instrument stretch — what make you go beyond the norm.

A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

Love isn't blind; it's only love that sees.

The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle.

A little more matriarchy is what the world needs, and I know it. Period. Paragraph.

Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

Our biggest problem as human beings is not knowing that we don't know.

Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- really a delightful sensation after you have ceased struggling.

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Our truest responsibility to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find the truth.

The thing that's important to know is that you never know. You're always sort of feeling your way.

One has to grow up with good talk in order to form the habit of it.

It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

Resolve to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

I believe the second half of one's life is meant to be better than the first half. The first half is finding out how you do it. And the second half is enjoying it.