O's 2010 Summer Reading List

"What you risk reveals what you value," declares the novelist Jeanette Winterson. "A woman cannot directly choose her circumstances, but she can choose her thoughts, and so indirectly, yet surely, shape her circumstance ... As a woman thinketh in her heart, so is she," said author Dorothy Hulst. "Can one be spiritual without religious faith? One can. All one needs is to be open to someone else's concerns, fears, and hopes, and to make him or her feel less alone," suggests the Nobelist Elie Wiesel. These are just a few of the wise thoughts in Words That Matter, a book of quotations that appeared in O magazine. In bookstores now, it's full of everyday truths and surprising insights.