Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
In Wales, it's eight different weathers in a day.
I'm NOT lost, they just moved my street.
But at school, I wasn't athletic, and if you're not athlete in high school, it's kind of hard to find your place, so play practice seemed perfect, especially if you were as uncoordinated as I was.
I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.
One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.
It takes a lot of guts to get up on top of a bar and dance.
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women.
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
The work we do is only our love for Jesus in action. . . If we pray the work. . . if we do it to Jesus, if we do it for Jesus, if we do it with Jesus. . . that's what makes us content.
How many a knot of mystery and misunderstanding would be untied by one word spoken in simple and confiding truth of heart! How many a solitary place would be made glad if love were there, and how many a dark dwelling would be filled with light!