“For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.”

Anything one does every day is important and imposing and anywhere one lives is interesting and beautiful.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.

You’ll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

Ladies there is no neutral position for us to assume.

Romance is everything.

Any time is the time to make a poem.

Money is always there but the pockets change.

In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.

The first hope of a painter who feels hopeful about painting is the hope that the painting will move, that it will live outside its frame.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.

You attract what you need like a lover.

There are a lot of other things besides nouns.

If you knew it all it would not be creation but dictation.

Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

One of the truest tests of integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.

The ultimate error is the refusal to look evil in the face.

Schools that refuse to reopen should receive no federal funding!

A refusal of praise is a desire to be praised twice.

Refuse to be afraid that we will no longer be considered attractive and acceptable when we are strong.

Every new Fashion is a refusal to inherit, a subversion against the oppression of the preceding Fashion; Fashion experiences itself as a Right, the natural right of the present over the past.

Until we understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. And this drive to self-knowledge, for women, is more than a search for identity.