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I am a woman. I am a fisherman. As I have said, I am not a fisherwoman, fisherlady, or fishergirl.
If you're not called crazy when you launch something new, it means you're not thinking BIG enough.
My sister taught me everything I really need to know, and she was only in sixth grade at the time.
Time's a funny thing, bending, warping, stretching, and compressing, all depending on perspective.
I am the oldest of three girls and the only one not named after one of my father's ex-girlfriends.
She had discovered that the best remedy for heartache was trying to make herself useful to others.
- No, no... She shook her head for emphasis. No. His lips twitched. - One 'no' is enough, darling.
Both of us were quiet with the recognition that something was ending, and something was beginning.
Without a doubt... the worst part of being a single woman was having to take care of your own car.
Easy, Marks,' he whispered. 'One of us has to have some self-control, and it really should be you.
Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.
The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.
Too late, he recalled Miles's dictum that the reward for a job well done was usually a harder job.
Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.
The Golden Rule of Parenting is; do unto your children as you wish your parents had done unto you!
Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
The biggest parts of healing and making myself whole is to accept all of the many parts of myself.
You wouldn't say ' You've got the crappest eyes I've ever seen. Your eyes make me physically sick.
There is nothing more aggravating than a man who won't talk back - unless it is a woman who won't.
Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
Conflict tip: What comes out of someone else's mouth is a reflection of their heart ... not yours.
We were made for more than compromise. We were made for God's promises in every area of our lives.
Every moment of a science fiction story must represent the triumph of writing over world-building.
‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?
Millennials expect to create a better future, using the collaborative power of digital technology.
Sex education should be 'relationship education', focusing on how to achieve long-term commitment.
I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
I'm tired of saying "How wonderful you are!" to fool men, who haven't got one half sense I've got.
I was the person who stayed awake reading by the nightlight until the scary shadows made me crazy.
Oh, am I a feminist? I usually say that I was an accidental feminist. Really, I was just being me.
But it seems there is more than one way to poison a person's heart, and it doesn't require a meal.
Our problem is not that we don't have power, so much as that we tend to not use the power we have.
Forgiveness is 'selective remembering'--a conscious decision to focus on love and let the rest go.
Think of your career as your ministry. Make your work an expression of love in service to mankind.
Physical circumstances have very little to do with either our capacity to love or to attract love.
I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.
People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.
Some pain is simply the normal grief of human existence. That is pain that I try to make room for.
Most women I know are priestesses and healers... We are, all of us, sisters of a mysterious order.
A threat to our freedom is a threat to our freedom, whether from a terrorist or from a trade deal.
To be responsible, keep your promises to others. To be successful, keep your promises to yourself.
The world needs you. It needs that special thing you've been dreaming about since you were little.
No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.
We are all honorable men here, we don 't have to give each other assurances as if we were lawyers.
There is never an absolute answer to everything, except of course that you have to do your squats.
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.