Quotes About Expression

Don't write when you're angry and under deadline, with time to test it only on friends who know what you mean, not on strangers who don't.

A writer's greatest reward is naming something unnamed that many people are feeling. A writer's greatest punishment is being misunderstood. The same words can do both.

Surrealism is the triumph of form over content.

To write is to bring an inner voice into the outer world, to believe that our thoughts are worth entering the thinking of others, and to make real what has never existed in quite the same way before. What could be a better path to self-value than that?

Home is a symbol of the self. Caring for a home is caring for one's self.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

Laughter is the only free emotion-the only one that can't be compelled.p.181

Adalah revolusionar bagi perempuan untuk menyanyikan kepedihan, tapi lebih lagi bila ia menyanyikan seluruh lagu kehidupan

The simple right to reproductive freedom - to sexuality as an expression that is separable from reproduction - is basic to restoring women's power, the balance between women and men, and a balance between humans and nature.

Rhyming in itself is magic.

It's time to leave. There is so much out there to do and say and listen to. I can go on the road, because I can come home. I come home, because I am free to leave.

Will we get to the point that learning sign language is a part of literacy? That knowing both an audible and a physical language is routine?

You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine", so we suppress it-until it overflows.

You're always the person you were when you were born. You just keep finding new ways to express it.

Inside, each of us has a purple motorcycle.

Even graffiti above a tunnel can begin a journey that never ends.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.

Spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways of freeing an inner voice.

I myself cried when I got angry, then became unable to explain why I was angry in the first place. Later I would discover this was endemic among female human beings. Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress it—until it overflows.

Take public speaking: I spent all of my twenties and early thirties avoiding it. When I once asked a speech teacher about my aversion, she explained that dancers and writers were especially difficult to teach to speak in public, since both had chosen a profession in which they didn't have to talk—and I had been both.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.

Anger is supposed to be "unfeminine," so we suppress