I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

Proverb, Indian Proverb

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

Thomas Tusser

I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting.

Russell Banks

Love is a great power, and such a strange power...

Sergei Lukyanenko

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Theodore Roosevelt

... all his strength gathered in his hips and chest and his arms wrapped around me and his breath jabbed soft and hot in my ear and a note of tenderness was there at the end like a lovely curlicue and I liked him because there was no disguising the honest male gladness that went from his body out to mine.

Glen Duncan

Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.

Martin Heidegger

I'm not a star!!! A star is nothing but a ball of gas!!!

Elijah Wood

The best prophet of the future is the past.

George Byron

The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Augustus Hare

But Death was cunning.

J.K. Rowling

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

Robert Frost