Then I tug the toaster from the wall and swing the appliance around my head like a lasso. I’m not aiming to knock her out. I’m aiming to knock off her fucking head.

When the women’s movement started in the 1960s, there was a vision of a future where women didn’t wear makeup or worry about how their hair looked, and everybody wore sensible, comfortable clothes. It ran into an absolute brick wall.

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall

I got into cooking and I went and cooked in Italy. I became a doula for a while. I built stone walls one summer, and I read a lot, and I swam a lot, and I spent a lot of time thinking.

My life is flashing lights and pointing fingers and uninvited visitors. Inches away, humans flatten their little hands against the wall of glass that separates us.The glass says you are this and we are that and that is how it will always be.

Old guns rarely die, they just hang on walls

There’s a strange sort of quiet when you’re dying. It’s as if you’re in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

When you are backed against the wall, break the goddamn thing down.

Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out.

Suffering pulls us farther away from other human beings. It builds a wall made of cries and contempt to separate us.

Love is larger than the walls which shut it in.

Be united with other Christians. A wall with loose bricks is not good. The bricks must be cemented together.

Every wall is a door.

The walls of the educational system must come down. Education should not be a privilege, so the children of those who have money can study.

Nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.

When you are up against a wall, put down roots like a tree until clarity comes from deeper sources to see over that wall and grow

Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with

If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it

Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls.

Throughout my formal education, I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries

Humpty Dumpty sat on the wall with a joint, drinking some eight-ball.

The Beastie Boys broke all the walls for me. They were the introduction of rap is for everybody.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Reality doesn’t impress me. I only believe in intoxication, in ecstasy, and when ordinary life shackles me. I escape one way or another. No more walls.

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds. A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings. The Swallow, finding her nest empty, lamented greatly and exclaimed: “Woe to me a stranger! that in this place where all others’ rights are protected, I alone should suffer wrong

Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.