In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Nature inspires us. Not being able to reach out and touch it, or see it, makes me get really antsy.

I love being outside - that's where I'm the happiest.

I tended to be a solitary young girl, and I still am. I would like to find a quiet corner and color in my coloring book. When I think back, I made that corner mine, not really caring about the rest of the house.

If your home is peaceful, then you're going to go out in your day peacefully.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me.

I'm very proud of being a woman, and as a woman, I don't even like the word feminism because when I hear that word, I associate it with women trying to pretend to be men, and I'm not interested in trying to pretend to be a man. I don't want to embrace manhood, I want to embrace my womanhood.