“Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.”

“I think happiness is what makes you pretty. Period. Happy people are beautiful. They become like a mirror and they reflect that happiness.”

“Oh, I love hugging. I wish I was an octopus, so I could hug 10 people at a time!”

“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”

“When I lay my head on the pillow at night I can say I was a decent person today. That's when I feel beautiful.”

“Kisses, even to the air, are beautiful.”

“One of the greatest journeys in life is overcoming insecurity and learning to truly not give a shit.”

“Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel: sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.”

“Women's work, married or unmarried, is menial and low paid. Women's right to possess property is curtailed, more if they are married. How can marriage provide security? In any case a husband is a p...”

“Self-confidence and self-will are strength for sacred accomplishments.”

“The Lord is my strength.”

“I even made poor Louis take me on Crusade. How's that for blasphemy? I dressed my maids as Amazons and rode bare-breasted halfway to Damascus. Louis had a seizure and I damn near died of windburn.....”