“I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.”

“Give us being and feeling over having any day.”

“You owe it to your loved ones as well as yourself to know and pursue your pleasures.”

“Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.”

“Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.”

“Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.”

“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"...No woman has ever written enough.”

“When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women”

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”

“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”

“Be a good human.”

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”

“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't li...”

“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”

“Fear is all in the mind”