If you do not like anything, alter it. If you can not change it, adjust your mindset. Will not complain.

I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.

The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape.

There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.