You speak metaphorically, I hope, said Peggy. I hope not, said Becca. Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space.

All women are misfits. We do not fit into this world without amputations.

Marge Piercy

My biggest challenge is trust, and really believing that trust, in letting things just happen personally and professionally and trust with myself. But I'm getting better at it.

Katherine Moennig

God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.

Euripides

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, evil, can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength, if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

Henry Miller

The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

Samuel Butler

The mother-daughter relationship is the most complex.

Wynonna Judd

Strength is a matter of the made-up mind.

John Beecher

Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

Ovid

All male animals, including men, when they are in love, are apt to behave in ways that seem ludicrous to bystanders.

Francis Galton

Science was something that really caught my attention. It was something I really could sink my teeth into.

Michael P. Anderson

We submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.

Ambrose Bierce

Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.

John Burnham Schwartz