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We animals live life in all its glorious uncertainty. Why do politicians think they can control events?
Language is the road map of a culture. It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Mother believed in enjoying herself. Aunt Mimi believed in enjoying herself, then feeling guilty about it.
If Michaelangelo were a heterosexual, the Sistine Chapel would have been painted basic white and with a roller.
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
Cats and dogs believe politicians are like cemetery caregivers; they are on top of everyone, but nobody listens.
The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.
I love literature, the English language and storytelling. I also have thirty horses and seventy foxhounds to feed.
There are very few people who are creative and imaginative. Therefore, fiction is difficult for people to embrace.
I mean, what do people talk about when they're married?" "Their kids, I guess." "Maybe that's all they have in common.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
My lesbianism is an act of Christian charity. All those women out there praying for a man, and I'm giving them my share.
People aren't grapes - you can't weigh them in a bunch, but I guess it's easier than dealing with people as individuals.
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.
Oppression works in such a way that it holds every person responsible for the acts of any wrongdoer of the oppressed group.
Life is unjust, people can be cruel, and yet if you harden your heart, you will lose what little love there is in this world.
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
There hasn't been a day in my life since I started Latin in ninth grade that I haven't benefited by the lives of the ancients.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
It doesn't matter to me. We're still cousins in our own way. Blood's just something old people talk about to make you feel bad.
Writers are the moral purifiers of the culture. We may not be pure ourselves but we must tell the truth, which is a purifying act.
Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.
The writer's job is not to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here I am,” but to write a novel, hold it up and say, “Here YOU are.
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
I do think women avoid power. Power assumes responsibility and accountability, and I think many, many women want to have it both ways.
Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace.
Mothers have a habit of proving right except you don't find that out until you're the age your mother was when she gave you the advice.
While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, "Man", And its hero the Conqueror Worm.
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
For you to be successful, sacrifices must be made. It's better that they are made by others but failing that, you'll have to make them yourself.
What's the point of prolonging your life if you don't enjoy it? It's your body. Do whatever you want with it. Better to wear out than rust over.
Sport strips away personality, letting the white bone of character shine through. Sport gives players an opportunity to know and test themselves.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
Creative people do not belong in the university because the process is antithetical to the analytical process so necessary for proper scholarship.
All creatures tread across the rubble of ruined civilizations. The trick is to keep moving. No animal ever goes about dispensing shallow compassion.
In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Aunt Mimi possessed a horror of silence, which she battled with endless chat. The Typhoid Mary of the Telephone started her calls at 6:30 each morning.
Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
Seriousness is the refuge of the shallow. There are events and personal experiences that call forth seriousness but they are fewer than most of us think.
Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.
While cats can be infuriating, little old women in fur coats, they make me laugh. Of course, dogs, horses and my highly social chickens are dear to me, too.
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.