Close your bodily eye that you may see your picture first with the eye of the spirit. Then bring to light what you have seen in the darkness that its effect may work back from without to within.

America is at that awkward stage it's too late to work within the system but too early to shoot the bastards.

I myself would like to become more disciplined within my work.

I don't think balance is something you get from someone else it's something women have to find from within. For me finding balance is still a work in progress.

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.

We are victims of evil customs. It is a crime against humanity that our women are shut up within the four walls of the houses as prisoners. There is no sanction anywhere for the deplorable condition in which our women have to live.

The most virtuous women have something within them something that is never chaste.

We all have within us a deep wisdom but sometimes we don't know we have it.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

After I had the Caesarean I was told I had really strong stomach muscles and so would heal very quickly. And I did. I was up walking about within three hours. Six days after having her I was out shopping and shortly after that I made it to David Walliams' wedding.