What is a woman's power then?" she asked. "I don't think we know." "When has a woman power because she's a woman? With her children, I suppose. For a while..." "In her house, maybe." She looked around the kitchen. "But the doors are shut," she said, "the doors are locked." "Because you're valuable." "Oh yes. We're precious. So long as we're powerless.

Excess is excrement, ... Excrement retained in the body is a poison.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

What else can the young be? When you are on the bottom, you must organize from the bottom up

My great-aunt. . . . said nobody under 18 had any business reading Dickens. . . . She was right.