I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.

Gerald W. Johnson

Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.

Howard Zinn

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination... a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

Karen Thompson Walker

Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

Susan B. Anthony

Animals praise a good day, a good hunt. They praise rain if they're thirsty. That's prayer. They don't live an unconscious life, they simply have no language to talk about these things. But they are grateful for the good things that come along.

Mary Oliver

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Ann Rule

One of my less pleasant chores when I was young was to read the Bible from one end to the other. Reading the Bible straight through is at least 70 percent discipline, like learning Latin. But the good parts are, of course, simply amazing. God is an extremely uneven writer, but when He's good, nobody can touch Him.

John W. Gardner

We have no commission from God to police the world.

Benjamin Harrison

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Confucius

After all, it's all kinds of things that make up a life, right? The big, like falling in love and spending time with your family, and the little....like blow drying your hair, applying concealer, and cursing those magazine inserts. It all counts. It has to.

Sarah Dessen

For me, titles are either a natural two-second experience or stressful enough to give you an ulcer. If they don't pop out perfect on the first try, they can be really hard to repair. Or, worse, if the author thinks they pop out perfect, but the publishing house does not agree, it's difficult to shift gears. And then? Then you go insane.

Sloane Crosley

Week after week, the heads of Red Army Intelligence received updates on the Wehrmacht's preparations.

Leopold Trepper