“Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new.”

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the ...”

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

“The winds and seas, the powers of water and earth an light, all that these do, and all that the beasts and green things do, is well done, and rightly done. All these act within the Equilibrium. Fro...”

“I had forgotten how much light there is in the world, till you gave it back to me.”

“But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord.""It might to keep it open.”

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”

“They say the distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success, I believe you can say the same thing about the distance between good and evil.”

“A cynic always focuses on problems and not on possibilities.”

“You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.”

“Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.”

“Look, girls. It is important to all of us that we win this game, right? Well, when it comes to athletics, boys are simply better suited than girls. Its a fact of nature that no one can change. Im s...”

“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.”