I am who I choose to be. I have always been what I chose, though not always what I pleased.

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are.

Do it for yourself. The universe will be around to collect its cut later.

You couldn't be that good and not know it, somewhere in your secret heart, however much you'd been abused into affecting public humility.

Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal.

Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.

The will to be stupid is a very powerful force, but there are always alternatives.