"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

"Some people don't understand that it is the nature of the eye to have seen forever, and the nature of the mind to recall anything that was ever known."
— Alice Walker (The Temple of My Familiar)

"Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible."
— Doris Lessing

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."
— Anaïs Nin

"If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."
— Toni Morrison

"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any."
— Alice Walker

"It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it."
— Terry Pratchett

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

"I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual"
— Virginia Woolf

"Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

"Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is the very opposite of what it is above. "
— Virginia Woolf

"But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm."
— Virginia Woolf

"Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us."
— Virginia Woolf (Jacob's Room)