You may not get what you paid for, but you will pay for what you get.

I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it.

One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.

Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.

Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot.

Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn't be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.