Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest..

No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater fr….

Be careful what you ask of Heaven; it might be granted..

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence..

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this..

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul..

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and g….

I love fiction because in fiction you go into the thoughts of people, the little people, the people who were defeated, the poor, the women, the child….

True friendship resists time, distance and silence..

Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if pos….

I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I have a lot of energy, and I….

I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If t….

For women in my lifetime things have changed quite a bit, but not enough. They have only changed for women that have education and access to health c….

The first few months of my life of every year are in total retreat. I don't see anybody except my husband and my dog, I don't talk to anybody, and I ….

Now of course we have Black historians, but they're usually men. We get the perspective always, the slanted perspective, of what has happened. The ba….

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell..

You have the health you deserve..

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her c….

My mum said that as you age you have to smell good and be clean and don't hate anybody because that makes you older. Um I don't agree. I think that o….

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of t….

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the convent, but no congregation, not even the Littl….