"The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage."

“I suggest to everyone: Look in the mirror. Ask yourself: Who are you? What are your talents? Use them, and do what you love.”

Source : "The Explorer: Sylvia Earle" by Shaun Dreisbach, www.glamour.com. November 4, 2014.

“Our society does reward beauty on the outside over health on the inside. Women must not be blamed for choosing short-term beauty "fixes" that harm our long-term health, since our life spans are inverted under the beauty myth, and there is no great social or economic incentive for women to live a long time.”

“The circumstances with which every thing in this world is begirt, give every thing in this world its size and shape;--and by tightening it, or relaxing it, this way or that, make the thing to be, what it is--great--little--good--bad--indifferent or not indifferent, just as the case happens.”

“J-Bay displays the best of people’s surfing.”

“One of the greatest assets of a farm is the sheer ecstasy of life.”

“There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.”

“A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behavior means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing -a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit.”

“House passes #dadt (don't ask don't tell) repeal. A step fwd on equality 4 gay Americans in military. History will judge those who tried 2 block passage on this.”