"Living is what scares me. Dying is easy."

“What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?”

Source : "John Sentamu and the Church of England's slow retreat on gay marriage" by Andrew Brown, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2013.

“If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record.”

“By far the most common craving of pregnant women is not to be pregnant.”

“If you're not yourself, who will be?”

“In the south of India, they educated girls. Three things came together in southern India that are unbelievably coincidental. There, the local Maharajas believed in education for everybody. The Syrian Catholic Church built schools for boys and girls. And then the Communist party, which took over politics for a period of time, had very strong social policies that benefited women. As a result, girls got into school. It was the first part of the country where towns could claim to be 100 percent literate. And so there, you're going to have a sex ratio at birth that's normal.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Silence is the essential condition of happiness.”

Source : Heinrich Heine (1888). “Wit, Wisdom, and Pathos”

“I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.”

“You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'”