We talk of our mastery of nature, which sounds very grand but the fact is we respectfully adapt ourselves, first, to her ways.

My adversary is the world of finance.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Why does the social order feel the need to defend itself by evading the fact of real women, our faces and voices and bodies, and reducing the meaning of women to these formulaic and endlessly reproduc...

Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be ready then to let you go. But it's you, and I realize now that I won't be anymore ready to lose you then than I am right n...

I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the tracing service and there it all is: the arrow moving northward from the African savannah, skirting the Mediterranean by way of the...

I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.

Ever been in a spelling bee as a kid? That snowy second after the announcement of the word as you sift your brain to see if you can spell it? It was like that, the blank panic.

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity.

God created you not as an ordinary personality, but eminent, peculiar, and with a special assignment

For us to progress, we must be community in liberty, equality and fraternity.

To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.

I feel like the queen of the oven! I am the Queen of all oven-dry! Master of heat! You may now address me as "Your Royal Highness"!

I fully agree with all that you say on the advantages of H. Spencer's excellent expression of 'the survival of the fittest.' This, however, had not occurred to me till reading your letter. It is, howe...

You are saying that this world is destructible. No, even a single dust of the world is Absolute. In one form a man and at the same time a food is also Absolute. Though there is a change. Through chang...

Know and believe that anything is possible.

Only a cynic can create horror--for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving demonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock t...

Without haters, you can't see the level of your progress, that shows you that haters are necessary evil.

Chuck Norris can unscramble an egg.

The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn . . . spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end . . . earth scents and the sky winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the hea...