Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness.
Every time I start a picture. . . I feel the same fear, the same self-doubts. . . and I have only one source on which I can draw, because it comes from within me.
I spent my life trying to cure myself of my education.
Our minds can shape the way a thing will be because we act according to our expectations.
It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.
Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.
Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.
The left sees nothing but bigotry and superstition in the popular defense of the family or in popular attitudes regarding abortion, crime, busing, and the school curriculum.
During chemo, you're more tired than you've ever been. It's like a cloud passing over the sun, and suddenly you're out. But you also find that you're stronger than you've ever been. You're clear. Your mortality is at optimal distance, not up so close that it obscures everything else, but close enough to give you depth perception. Previously, it has taken you weeks, months, or years to discover the meaning of an experience. Now it's instantaneous.
I think fear is a very healthy motivator.