"There are 41 million people who do not have access to a toilet in Pakistan and as a result they are defecating in the open. And open defecation has significant health and nutritional consequences."

“I have no regrets. I find everything happens for a reason and the reason why maybe this is happening is I won't take BS from anyone. And I think it's making me stand out on my own and be very independent and fight for what I believe in.”

“He smiles at me, and I am suddenly seventeen again - the year I realize that love doesn't follow the rules, the year I understood that nothing is worth having so much as something unattainable”

“We are the facilitators of our own creative evolution.”

“If someone should ask me, 'What does the soul do?' I would say, It does two things. It loves. And it creates. Those are its primary acts.”

“I never want to do the same things twice. I like surprises.”

Source : "The Secret Life Of Audrey Tautou". Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. November 29, 2004.

“Credit is like a looking-glass, which when once sullied by a breath, may be wiped clear again; but if once cracked can never be repaired.”

“I wish I knew where to get a good one myself; for I find cold Sheets extreamly disagreeable.”

“Anyway, what is the soul but a dream of itself?”

Source : Alicia Ostriker (1982). “A Woman Under the Surface: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.47, Princeton University Press