"Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings."
— Cheris Kramarae

"A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men."
— Gloria Steinem

"I've never been able to figure out precisely what a feminist is. I know only this, people call me a feminist whenever I express any sentiment that differentiates me from a doormat."
— Rebecka West

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

"Peace begins with a smile.."
— Mother Teresa

"I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love."
— Mother Teresa

"Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein."
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world."
— Mother Teresa

"God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try"
— Mother Teresa

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."
— Mother Teresa

"The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway."
— Mother Teresa

"I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things."
— Mother Teresa

"If I could dream at all it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Before you Bella my life was like a moonless night. Very dark, but there were stars - points of light and reason. .... And then you shot across my sky like a meteor. Suddenly everything was on fire; there was brilliance, there was beauty. When you were gone, when the meteor had fallen over the horizon, everything went black. Nothing had changed, but my eyes were blinded by the light. I couldn't see the stars anymore. And there was no reason for anything."
— Stephenie Meyer

"'Do I dazzle you?'

'Frequently.'"
— Stephenie Meyer

"Fall down again, Bella?'
'No, Emmett, I punched a werewolf in the face.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"I promise to love you forever—every single day of forever."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"So what you're saying is, I'm your brand of heroin?"
"You're exactly my brand of heroin."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Edward - I wasn't about to send you off alone. With your luck, not even the black box would survive.
Bella - So let's say my bad luck did crash the plane. What exactly were you going to do about it?
Edward - Why is the plane crashing?
He was trying to hide a smile now.
Bella - The pilots are passed out drunk.
Edward - Easy. I'd fly the plane.
Of course. I pursed my lips and tried again.
Bella - Both engines have exploded and we're falling in a death spiral toward the earth.
Edward - I'd wait till we were close enough to the ground, get a good grip on you, kick out the wall, and jump. Then I'd run you back to the scene of the accident, and we'd stumble around like the two luckiest survivors in history.
I stared at him wordlessly.
"What?" he whispered."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Stupid, shiny Volvo owner."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Did you seriously just stamp your foot? I thought girls just did that on TV."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Penguins, lovely."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Alice: "I'll play you for it. Rock, paper, scissors."
Edward: "Why don't you just tell me who wins?"
Alice: 'I do. Excellent.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You are . . . well, not exactly the love of my life, because I expect to love you for much longer than that. The love of my existence."
-Edward"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Oh, a sadistic vampire intent on torturing you to death, sure, no problem, you run off to meet him. An I.V. on the other hand."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I may not be human, but I am a man. -Edward Cullen"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"But if you bring her back damaged again-and I don't care whose fault it is; I don't care if she merely trips, of if a meteor falls out of the sky and hits her in the head - if you return her to me in less than the perfect condition I left her in, you will be running with three legs. Do you understand now mongrel?"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"Now you know...no one's ever loved anyone as much as I love you."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Is that what you dream about? Becoming a monster?
Not exactly. Mostly I dream about being with you forever.
"
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"Bella: "Why am I covered in feathers?"
Edward: "I bit a pillow. Or two."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You're impossible. How can I put this so that you'll believe me? You're not asleep, and you're not dead. I'm here, and I love you. I have always loved you, and I will always love you. I was thinking of you, seeing your face in my mind, every second when I was away. When I told you I didn't want you, it was the blackest kind of blasphemy."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"You’ve kept me waiting a long time, she said.

“And you ducked your head, like a good Southern gentleman, and said, ‘I’m sorry, ma’am.’” Alice laughed at the memory.

Jasper smiled down at her. “You held out your hand, and I took it without stopping to make sense of what I was doing. For the first time in almost a century, I felt hope."
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"I pressed my hands to his face again, hefted the shield right out of my mind, and then started in where I had left off-with the crystal-clear memory of the first night of my new life...lingering on the details. I laughed breathlessly when his urgent kiss interrupted my efforts again.
"Damn it," he growled, kissing hungrily down the edge of my jaw."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I'm nearly a hundred and ten, it's about time I settle down."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

"I gave up with an angry humph. 'So that's it. You won't sleep with me until we're married.'
'Technically, I can't ever sleep with you.'
I rolled my eyes. 'Very mature, Edward.'"
— Stephenie Meyer (Eclipse)

"More than that, I thought of Bella and requited love. She couldn't love me the way I loved her - such an overpowering, all-consuming, crushing love would probably break her fragile body. But she felt strongly enough. Enough to subdue the instinctive fear. Enough to want to be with me. And being with her was the greatest happiness I had ever known."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Did ya get in a couple of good swipes?" Emmett asked eagerly.
"No! Of course not."
"No, not really? You really didn't attack him?"
"Emmett!" I protested.
"Aw, what a waste," Emmett groaned. "And here you're probably the one person who could take him--since he can't get in your head to cheat--and you had a perfect excuse, too." He sighed. "I've been dying to see how he'd do without that advantage."
I glared at him frostily. "I would never."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"You're wrong you know. You are worth it."
— Stephenie Meyer (Twilight)

"I stared into her eyes, wide under the thick fringe of lashes, and yearned for sleep. Not for oblivion, as I had before, not to escape boredom, but because I wanted to dream. Maybe, if I could be unconscious, if I could dream, I could live for hours in a world where she and I could be together. She dreamed of me. I wanted to dream of her. I could not dream of her. She should not dream of me."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Stop being so..." Took me a minute to decide on the right word. "Optimistic. It's getting on my nerves."
"No problem. You want me to be all doom and gloom, or just shut up?"
"Just shut up."
"Can do."
"Really? Doesn't seem like it."
He was finally quiet.
And then we were across the road and moving through the forest that ringed the Cullens' house. Could Edward hear us yet?
"Maybe we should be thinking something like, "We come in peace."
"Go for it."
"Edward?" He called the name tentatively. "Edward, you there? Okay, now I feel kinda stupid."
"You sounds stupid, too."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Jacob grinned. "Everything's going to be great, Charlie. Just try to not believe anything you see."
My dad mumbled something unintelligible.
"Woo! Emmett suddenly boomed in his deep bass. "Go Gators!"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"Charlie: "Does Bella turn into an animal too?"
Jacob: "She wishes she were that cool!"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"So the waitress was pretty, was she?"
She raised the eyebrow again. "You really didn't notice?"
As if any woman could hope to capture my attention from Bella. Absurd, again."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"Love doesn't always come in convenient packages."
— Stephenie Meyer (Midnight Sun)

"So, Bella, I was following your scent through the woods after I left your room where I'd been watching you sleep. Yes, that would be quite the ice breaker.
-Midnight Sun- "
— Stephenie Meyer

"Jacob: "Stupid leeches. Think they're so superior."
Edward: "They'll be shocked when infants save their superior lives, won't they?"
Jacob: "Hell yeah, they will."
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)

"I knew it was working then, so I concentrated even harder, dredging up specific memories I’d saved for this moment, letting them flood my mind, and hopefully his as well. Some of the memories were not clear – dim human memories, seen through weak eyes and heard through weak ears: the first time I’d seen his face… the way it felt when he’d held me in the meadow… the sound of his voice through the darkness of my faltering consciousness when he’d saved me from James… his face as he waited under a canopy of flowers to marry me… every precious moment from the island… his cold hands touching our baby through my skin… And the sharp memories, perfectly recalled: his face when I’d opened my eyes to my new life, to the endless dawn of immortality… that first kiss… that first night…
"
— Stephenie Meyer (Breaking Dawn)