"I have a lot of stuff I want to talk about and offer up. It would be odd not to have ideas about something."

“No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.”

“Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.”

“It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.”

“Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.”

“These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.”

“There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.”

“To see things as they really were--what an empoverishment!”

Source : L. P. Hartley, Colm Tóibín (2002). “The go-between”, NYRB Classics

“What's interesting, I think, is that a lot of times, women in powerful positions, when they do get critiqued, when they do get criticized, it often revolves around their appearance, their sexuality, their fertility, et cetera.”

Source : "Poll: Oprah Winfrey Most Admired Woman In America". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 10, 2011.