"Women, wake up; the tocsin of reason sounds throughout the universe; recognize your rights."

“Once we actually have the production script after many rewrites, at that point is when I start to decide what the look and colors will be. I work like a painter, even though I'm working in three dimensions. I'm working with chairs. I'm working with walls. But even things like the floor or the walls that people might think are not important, they actually do influence the visual look of the film. These are also things that I have to think about.”

“Real repentance means that a man has come, not only to be sorry for the consequences of his sin, but to hate sin itself.”

“To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.”

“We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.”

Source : Twitter post from Jan 31, 2017

“The white, the Hispanic, the black, the Arab, the Jew, the woman, the Native American, the small farmer, the businessperson, the environmentalist, the peace activist, the young, the old, the lesbian, the gay and the disabled make up the American quilt.”

Source : 1984 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 18 July 1984, San Francisco

“Life is a chain of small sorrows that lead to a great joy”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.

“There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.”

“Believing in our hearts that who we are is enough is the key to a more satisfying and balanced life.”

Source : Ellen Sue Stern (1991). “The Indispensable Woman”, Bantam