"I look up to Mandy Moore, because she's really classy. But when it comes to music, I'm my own person."

“O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.”

“If you keep hiding your true self, your life becomes like slow death. Once you become free from the lies and the hiding of yourself, then life becomes vibrant again.”

Source : FaceBook post by Ziggy Marley from Jan 22, 2014

“Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.”

Source : Virgilia Peterson (1961). “A Matter of Life and Death”, Bantam Books

“Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As a phenomenon, childbearing is seemingly eternal and universal, yet like no other it highlights the gender divide, the singularity of individual experience and sociocultural diversities.”

Source : Joan Raphael-Leff (2000). “Spilt Milk: Perinatal Loss & Breakdown”, p.1951, Karnac Books

“Man has his will, but woman has her way.”

“I drive past the Mad Men billboard every day and I can't believe I'm on that show.”

“If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!”

“My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.”