"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable."
Quotations
"A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side."
"We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form."
"It doesn't matter how you get knocked down in life, because that's going to happen. All that matters is that you gotta get up."
"The job of the grandmother is to span humanity’s greatest distance--the 14 inches from our heads to our hearts."
"Sometimes I envy people who can be only half crazy, with one foot in the passion and one foot in the real world. But that's not me. I dive into the total crazy experience. That's the only way to travel."