People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.

Prosperity or egalitarianism -- you have to choose. I favor freedom -- you never achieve real equality anyway: you simply sacrifice prosperity for an illusion.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Freedom, then, lies only in our innate human capacity to choose between different sorts of bondage, bondage to desire or self esteem, or bondage to the light that lightens all our olives.

Sri Madhava

Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

I obviously have a great love and appreciation of jewelry, thanks to my mother, much to the dismay of both my father and my boyfriends.

Ivanka Trump

If you really want things to change, you have to get involved. Little strokes fell big oaks, you know.

Wendelin Van Draanen

The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.

Anais Nin

It's not fun facing a ball going 97 mph, trust me.

Kevin Pietersen

Any rapist would feel pretty dang upset to see his car packed full with rotting fish heads and limburger cheese...Also, if the 542 women responsible were crowded onto the street where he lived, insisting that he move himself and his stinky car to another locale.Nobody likes to be pelted with 2060 bloody tampons.

Inga Muscio

Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.

Dan Gable

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Terry Pratchett

History isn't like that. History unravels gently, like an old sweater. It has been patched and darned many times, reknitted to suit different people, shoved in a box under the sink of censorship to be cut up for the dusters of propaganda, yet it always - eventually - manages to spring back into its old familar shape. History has a habit of changing the people who think they are changing it. History always has a few tricks up its frayed sleeve. It's been around a long time.

Terry Pratchett