"Support your priests with your love and prayers, that they may always be shepherds after Christ’s heart"

“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

“Since when was genius found respectable?”

“The light constantly changes, and that alters the atmosphere and beauty of things every minute.”

“Do you really expect me to say gravity hasn't taken its toll? No. But as I'm earning these lines [in my face], I'm making an aesthetic choice.”

“Preconceived notions and rules are antithetical to the creative process.”

“What can government do? They can listen to their own people. But I'll tell you what citizens can do, when we elect one of these people - whether we think it's a good guy or a bozo - you got to stay on the case. You don't vote and go home and give them the keys to the car, he'll drive you right off a cliff. You have to help people to stay honest.”

“Although I am a woman and young, I have more than enough courage to suffer this death and a thousand more.”

“He who has no pleasure in looking up, is not fit so much as to look down.”

Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.168, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of