A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.
My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.
Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.
The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.
Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.
A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
Troubles cured you salty as a country ham smoky to the taste thick-skinned and tender inside.
Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.
The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.
If you want to be listened to you should put in time listening.
An new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne. More commonly it wheezes and tips over.
To Have Without Holding:Learning to love differently is hard,love with the hands wide open, lovewith the doors banging on their hinges,the cupboard unlocked, the windroaring and whimpering in the room...
All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.
Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.
Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.
What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.
Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.