The perfect man is the true partner. Not a bed partner nor a fun partner, but a man who will shoulder burdens equally with you and possess that quality of joy.

Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments.

Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

The Passion that one Soul hath for God cannot be judged by another.

The truth is simple, you do not die from love. You only wish you did.

As women, we can't look old. We can't be fat. We're supposed to look like the 14-year-old models in Vogue, who are younger and younger and skinnier and skinnier, and they are air-brushed and contoured and Photoshopped.