She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.
If you want to remain at liberty, I suggest you not antagonize your defenders.
The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.
Only the forgotten are truly dead.
We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.
I was a writer first, and knew I'd be a storyteller at age seven. But since my parents are very practical, they urged me to go into a profession that would be far more secure so I went to medical school. But after practicing medicine for a few years, while raising two sons (with a husband who was also a doctor) I realized that combining medicine with motherhood was more of a challenge than I could handle. So I left medicine and stayed home. And that's when I once again picked up the pen and began to write.
The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.
There are tiny choices that everyone can make that profoundly affect our collective water use. Like not having the tap on while brushing your teeth, not starting your shower ten minutes in advance, not doing laundry until you have a full load. In this particular issue, education really is power.
We need more radicalism among us before we can speak as becomes a suffering, oppressed, and persecuted people.
Courage is fear that prays.
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.