I didn't put you in a prison, Evey. I just showed you the bars.

No one is useless who can pray, my sister.

Love is a word, another kind of open. As the diamond comes into a knot of flame I am Black because I come from the earth's inside take my word for jewel in the open light.

There's a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.

When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.

Anyone that gave them trouble for anything would find a drag queen's spiked heel up their urethra.

If you are locked in a room in your dream, you just tell yourself there's a key in your pocket. Then you reach in your pocket for the key and get yourself out. It's your dream. You get to write the...

A woman should never, never, never be financially dependent on anyone, especially a man, because the minute you are dependent, you could be abused.

Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.

He forgot Gavriel and Lorcan as he bolted for her—the gold and red and blue flames utterly hers, this heir of fire. Spying him at last, she smiled faintly. A queen's smile.

Hers was not a story of darkness. This would not be the story. She would fold it into herself, this place, this fear, but it would not be the whole story. It would not be her story.

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

LEONATOWell, then, go you into hell?BEATRICENo, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven;...

LEONATOWell, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.BEATRICENot till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of...

You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.

{In 16th century European society} Marriage was the triumphal arch through which women, almost without exception, had to pass in order to reach the public eye. And after marriage followed, in theory,...

Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope you will find some way to break the rules and make a little trouble out there. And I also hope that...

If you need something from somebody always give that person a way to hand it to you.