To push behind the dog sled and run in front of the dog sled. That was always an interesting job.

I had no doubts I could go to the pole. I may not be as strong, but I make up for physical strength in other areas, like steadiness and not panicking under stress.

Haiku is a particularly Zen form of poetry; for Zen detests egoism in the form of calculated effects or self-glorification of any sort. The author of haiku should be absent, and only the haiku present.

Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it.

Life is here only to be lived so that we can, through life, earn the right to death, which to me is paradise. Whatever it is that will bring me the reward of paradise, I'll do the best I can.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.