"Being a mother is the perfect experience for any writer. You learn how to not waste time. The writing hours become incredibly precious and concentrated because the rest of your day is completely packed with diapers, edible liquid foods that look like pooh, tiny bathtubs, and unconditional love."

“When love has carried us above all things into the Divine Dark, there we are transformed by the Eternal Word Who is the image of the Father; and as the air is penetrated by the sun, thus we receive in peace the Incomprehensible Light, enfolding us, and penetrating us.”

“Women who are not living ought to spend all their time cracking jokes. In a rotten society women grow witty; making a heaven while they wait.”

Source : Dorothy Miller Richardson (1967). “Pilgrimage”

“You don't have to sin to be carnal. People who are carnal just means they make all their decisions based on their senses.”

“When you ignore what people are saying on a daily basis, calling for the annihilation of your country, you are ignoring them at your own risk.”

Source : "The Shell Game". Book by Steve Alten, 2007.

“Good art inspires; Good design motivates.”

“I've been around long enough for people to know who I am and what my contributions are. They know me as more than just an artist. I think they know me as a woman as well.”

Source : "Aretha Franklin, the Queen of Soul, talks about her life and legacy". Interview with DeNeen L. Brown, www.washingtonpost.com. November 16, 2012.

“The emergence and blossoming of understanding, love, and intelligence has nothing to do with any tradition, no matter how ancient or impressive-it has nothing to do with time. It happens on its own when a human being questions, wonders, inquires, listens, and looks without getting stuck in fear, pleasure, and pain. When self-concern is quiet, in abeyance, heaven and earth are open.”

“I don't fight with people - like, I can barely fight with my husband because I'll just start crying instead.”