"Have compassion towards each other, including animals."

“My parents played bridge, and I remember being fascinated watching them. I sometimes got a chance to sit in on a hand, which I loved. But then I didn't actually play on my own for about 30 years.”

“... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.”

Source : Nicole Brossard (2005). “Fluid Arguments: Essays Written in French and English”, Mercury Press (Canada)

“By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit.”

“Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.”

Source : Clarice Lispector (1984). “Family Ties”, p.105, University of Texas Press

“I just want to be like other people that are normal.”

“It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is.”

“Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There was a time in my recuperation and healing where I just had to tell myself it is just time to get up and live your life the way you want to live,”