In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think...
I have learned not to worry about love but to honor its coming with all my heart.
My mother was very strong. Once, she picked up a coconut and smashed it against my father's head. It taught me about women defending themselves and not collapsing in a heap.
Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.
I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing...
Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. We may feel hostile or angry or weepy and hysterical, or we may feel depressed. It would never occur...
It is as if my self is hiding behind an iron door.
I dead parting from them because in the short time we've been together they've been like family to me. Like family might have been, I mean.
Bůh je v tobě a vůbec ve všech lidech. S Bohem v sobě už na svět přicházíme. Ale najde ho jen ten kdo ho hledá v sobě. Někdy se Bůh projeví i dyž ho nehledáš nebo dyž nevíš co vlastně hledáš. Samej ža...
But one thing I do thank her for, for teaching me to learn for myself, by reading and studying and writing a clear hand.
I understood at a very early age that in nature, I felt everything I should feel in church but never did. Walking in the woods, I felt in touch with the universe and with the spirit of the universe.
If you want to have a life that is worth living, a life that expresses your deepest feelings and emotions and cares and dreams, you have to fight for it.
Hope to sin only in the service of waking up.
But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and...
The God of woman is autonomy
Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.
Tashi knows she is learning a way of life she will never live.
I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.
I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.