Your crown has been bought and paid for. Put it on your head and wear it.

Being a woman is hard work. Not without joy and even ecstasy, but still relentless, unending work. Becoming an old female may require only being born with certain genitalia, inheriting long-living genes and the fortune not to be run over by an out-of-control truck, but to become and remain a woman command the existence and employment of genius.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw some things back.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss

Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being unaware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of.