“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”

“A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.”

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”

“What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks ‘the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,’.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I’m writing, I write. And then it’s as if the muse is convinced that I’m serious and says, ‘Okay. Okay. I’ll come.”

“Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.”

“A Woman in harmony with her spirit is like a river flowing.She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination prepared to be herself and only herself ”

“Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake.”