“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”

“I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didnt even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew Id found a solid group of friends...”

“I want to be a Renaissance Woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I just want to do everything.”

“If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you dont, thats wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, dont shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surfac...”

“The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.”

“Dont let anyone tell you what you can and cant do or achieve. Do what you want to do and be who you want to be. Just encourage and include each other, dont ostracize the gender in front of you.”

“The only thing worse than a boy who hates you: a boy that loves you.”

“Its bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys games and work and manners!”

“Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.”

“Remember that self-doubt is as self-centered as self-inflation. Your obligation is to reach as deeply as you can and offer your unique and authentic gifts as bravely and beautifully as you're able.”

“Sometimes the only thing we can do for people is pray.”

“You simply cannot know the depth of your magnificence without the contrast of life.”

“The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try to negate body and flee earth with its constan...”

“... the effort to discover an authentic self, to strip away layers of alienation and culturally imposed identity and find a soul in a clear, unimpeded communion with the sacred is consonant with sp...”

“I'm a queen with or without a king. Chasing anything is beneath me. Until you're ready to put away childish things and be my man, my king, someone I can trust to shepard my soul to the Almighty I h...”