Rita Mae Brown

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

Education is a wonderful thing. If you couldn't sign your name you'd have to pay cash.

Normal is the average of deviance.

Recently, I was in Bernalda, my dad's ancestral home town in Italy. He has just refurbished a palazzo and turned it into a hotel, so we had my sister's wedding there. It was beautiful.

A surgeon is surrounded by people who are sick, discouraged, afraid, embittered, dying - but also courageous, loving, wise, compassionate and alive.

I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.