"My wife could turn to me and she may say, 'Why do you love me?' And I can with all honesty look her in the eye and say, 'Because our pheromones matched our olfactory receptors.'"

“I was lucky enough to go to college for four years. At what was supposedly a hippie school with no tests and no grades, blah blah blah, I wasn't learning that. I was taking photography classes. That stuff just wasn't talked about. It was like, "Does this picture have the right about of grey in it?" It wasn't even an art school. It was a state-run school.”

“Women aren't trying to do too much. Women have too much to do.”

Source : Mary Kay Blakely (1995). “American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie”, p.199, Simon and Schuster

“The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.”

“Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation.”

“Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?”

“See the hand that nursed the serpent. The fine hasped pipes of her fingerbones. The skin bewenned and speckled. The veins are milkblue and bulby. A thin gold ring set with diamonds. That raised the once child's heart of her to agonies of passion before I was. Here is the anguish of mortality. Hopes wrecked, love sundered. See the mother sorrowing. How everything that I was warned of's come to pass.”

“be the mountain / be the ocean / be the tree / be happy / be the light / be the shadow / be the rain / be you / be”

Source : Ray Wilkins (2009). “The Girl with Nine Toes: A Story about Personal Growth”, p.64, BoD – Books on Demand

“Occasionally, I would focus on a particular school project and become obsessed with, what seemed to my mother, to be trivial details instead of apportioning the time I spent on school work in a more efficient way.”