Critics don't really affect the fact that we live in this paradise and what the meaning of that [is]. And what luck to have this!

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.

Dear God...I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

My parents taught me service - not by saying, but by doing. That was my culture, the culture of my family.

In South Korea, they believe that when you turn 60, you've become a baby again and the rest of your life should be totally about joy and happiness, and people should leave you alone, and I just think that that's the height of intelligence.

What the mind doesn't understand, it worships or fears.

I'm not convinced that women have the education or the sense of their own history enough or that they understand the cruelty of which men are capable and the delight that many men will take in seeing you choose to chain yourself - then they get to say 'See, you did it yourself.'