I said I wouldn't leave her.
You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell.
Sometimes you have to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything - whatever is bringing you down - get rid of it. Because you will find that when you are free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
You must love and care for yourself, because that's when the best comes out.
My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments - I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life. Happiness is the greatest beauty secret.
I didn't have anybody, really, no foundation in life, so I had to make my own way. Always, from the start. I had to go out in the world and become strong, to discover my mission in life.
Practice restraint over the following: appetite, first, as well as sleep, lust, and anger.
Religion and science have nothing to do with each other, they're about different things, science is about the way the world works and religion is about [. . . ] miracles. [. . . ] And in any case, if you ask most ordinary people in church or in a mosque why they believe, it's almost certainly got something to do with the belief that God does wonderful things, that God intervenes, that God heals the sick, that God answers prayers, God forgives sins.
The one good thing to be said about announcing yourself as a writer in the colonial Canadian fifties is that nobody told me I couldn't do it because I was a girl. They simply found the entire proposition ridiculous. Writers were dead and English, or else extremely elderly and American; they were not sixteen years old and Canadian.
The false is nothing but an imitation of the true.