I am what I am: an individual, unique and different.

I neither believe nor disbelieve anything.

A man is what a woman makes him and a woman makes herself.

I am a citizen of the world.

“the most revolutionary act for a woman will be a self-willed journey—and to be welcomed when she comes home.” 

“As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.” 

“Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.” 

I'm a horrible person. And it's just coming out in my work.

I'm one of those strange beasts who really likes a corset.

“Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one’s self.” 

“The first step toward speaking for others is speaking for ourselves.” 

“I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine" so we suppress it -until it overflows. I could see that not speaking up made my mother feel worse. This was my first hint of the truism that depression is anger turned inward; thus women are twice as likely to be depressed.” 

“Like the spider spinning its web, we create much of the outer world from within ourselves. The universe is a joint product of the observer and the observed.” 

“I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.” 

“We are so different, yet so much the same.” 

“I can go on the road - because I can come home. I come home - because I'm free to leave. Each way of being is more valued in the presence of the other.” 

“Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“The free man owns himself. He can damage himself with either eating or drinking; he can ruin himself with gambling. If he does he is certainly a damn fool, and he might possibly be a damned soul; but if he may not, he is not a free man any more than a dog

“What embitters the world is not excess of criticism, but an absence of self-criticism.”

“To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.”

“In my darkest moments, the “what-if”s bury me and the “if only”s keep me from enjoying what is.” 

Purity or impurity depends on oneself. No one can purify another.