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.

I think he had a wake-up call. It's a different kind of race, and I think maybe he didn't take it quite as seriously as he might have, but you can bet he learned a lot of lessons.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.