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" I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. "

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" You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. "

" I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it. "

" The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are. "

" I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my house and I have not put out the welcome mat, I want to stop them. "

" Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you're the funniest person you've ever heard of. "

" At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn't speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn't speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family. "

" My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. "

" All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. "

" A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim. "

" Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery. "

" I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes. "

" Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry. "

" I know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that. "

" I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side. "

" I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind. "

" I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me. "

" One of my lungs is half gone, and the other half, because I smoked for years, has a lesion. So I can't swim anymore and had the swimming pool covered over. Now it's what I call the dance pavilion, and so I and my friends sit out and put music on and watch people dance. "

" Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.' Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, 'Yes, I deserve it.' "

" In the flush of love's light, we dare be brave. And suddenly we see that love costs all we are, and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free. "

" I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings. "

" I don't think there's such a thing as autobiographical fiction. If I say it happened, it happened, even if only in my mind. "

" I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression. "

" Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history. "

" During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not. "

" How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! "

" If we don't plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don't have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don't have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind. "

" If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. "

" I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. "

" Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. "

" Encouragement to all women is - let us try to offer help before we have to offer therapy. That is to say, let's see if we can't prevent being ill by trying to offer a love of prevention before illness. "