My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
A fundamentalist can't bring himself or herself to negotiate with people who disagree with them because the negotiating process itself is an indication of implied equality.
She would sit by herself in the middle of the old stoe amphitheatre, with the sky's starry vault overhead, and simply listen to the great silence around her.
In some ways, her life is so much worse that everybody else's, people feel almost cheered up and inspired. They feel like, 'If Hayley hasn't killed herself, why should I?'
Parents are supposed to give the child back to herself with love. If they've got duct tape over their eyes because of narcissism, it doesn't happen.
Even your sweetest character has claws, no matter how well they may be retracted and hidden (hidden even from herself).
Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another.
Someone who hates one group will end up hating everyone - and, ultimately, hating himself or herself.
A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want.
Be the woman who falls so deeply in love with herself that nothing can stop her from loving all of life!
I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere?
It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.
Cobb: She locked away a secret, deep inside herself, something she once knew to be true... but chose to forget.
David Grant: How did she die? Kate Grant: Saw herself in the mirror one day.
I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We needn't destroy other cultures with the force of our own.
It's possible and available to any artist to be himself or herself on their own terms, to be accepted and embraced by black people. You don't have to be a thug to get love from black people.
I love reading other people's diaries, especially someone like Virginia Woolf's - such a formidable woman that it's a revelation when she shows you a more vulnerable side of herself.
But Paulie gives all of herself away, and so to create a love like that and a person who would give themselves away was what I thought was going to be difficult. I was little scared of such a challenge.
I've met men who have been married 19, 20 years, and all of a sudden the wife decides one day she needs to find herself.
I like a woman who takes care of herself - it says something about the way she'll care for me.
