“The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.”

As long as I’m facing the right direction, it doesn’t matter the size of my steps.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn’t. Social attitudes don’t change in a straight line.

I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.

The parity of women’s health. It’s very depressing to think that you win these rights, but then you have to win them again, and again, and again, and fight the same battles over and over.

Life is full of excuses to feel pain, excuses not to live, excuses, excuses, excuses.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

Souls have neither Sex nor Colour.

Courage is the only Magic worth having.

Images are … a kind of emotional shorthand.

Is perception equivalent to existence?

Is a currency worth anything if no one wants it? We used to buy shoes in Italy. Remember?

It takes courage to lead a life. Any life.

Do all women have to keep silent for men to speak? Do all women have to be legless for men to walk?

Breast-feeding may succumb to the bottle; cuddling, fondling, and paediatric visits may also be done by fathers…but when a child needs a mother to talk to, nobody else but a mother will do.

As women got little crumbs of power, men began to act paranoid – as if we’d disabled them utterly.

Loving someone is a loss of freedom – but one doesn’t think of it as loss because one gains so much else.

I’ve learned, That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I’m not sure why writing for others became harder. Probably a reluctance to give away anything you might conceivably use yourself caused a block. I did it, but it remained hard when it had once been easy.

With every thought we think, we either summon or block a miracle. It is not our circumstances, then, but rather our thoughts about our circumstances, that determine our power to transform them.

What are stumbling blocks and defeat to the weak and vacillating are but stepping stones to victory to the determined soul.

You really ought to read more books – you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

There is a force, a quickness that is translated through you into action. If you block it, the world will not have it.

God is Love’ means that He tries constantly to block your route to destruction.

Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you.