Their voices reach out into the empty yard, plunge deep into the hills, go right through the heart.
You're either a really good hooker or a really good mom. That kind of conflicted nature is very much a part of being a woman.
I don't think you can create anything interesting from a comfort zone. You have to work from a place of fear and failure.
I make a real effort to try and live in the real world and not just the dream world.
I am South African and I am so aware, even as a white, privileged South African, that even within our community of privilege the idea of talking about sex or sexual preference or sexual identity or anything like that was just, nobody ever did that and nobody ever felt comfortable doing that.
I want my son to grow up with a mom that he could see and look at her life with all the mistakes and with all the failures and all the flaws and say, "My mom lived an authentic life. That was the life she wanted to live. "
I don't believe in charmed lives. I think that tragedy is part of the lesson you learn to lift yourself up, to pick yourself up and to move on.
Men should press forward, in fame's glorious chase; Nobles look backward, and so lose the race.
Homophobia is just that: a phobia.
I can take a newspaper and make it a lethal weapon.
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire.