I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.

I now know how your angercame from skeletonsthat rattled in your heartand you couldn't escape them.

Susie Clevenger

In high school I dated a white woman. She would come to visit me on the rez. And her dad, who was very racist, didn't like that at all. And he told her one time, 'You shouldn't go on the rez if you're white because Indians have a lot of anger in their heart.'

Sherman Alexie

Experience tells you what to do confidence allows you to do it.

Stan Smith

Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.

Hannah Arendt

Women are not forgiven for aging. Bob Redford's lines of distinction are my old-age wrinkles.

Jane Fonda

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles Monroe Schulz

It's easy to forget things you don't need anymore.

Haruki Murakami

Cancer is a curious thing...Nobody knows what the cause is,Though some pretend they do;It's like some hidden assassin,Waiting to strike at you.Childless women get it,And men when they retire.It

W. H. Auden

I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken.

John Updike

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

Maya Angelou

People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams.

Norman Cousins