As long as there have been women." Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

As long as there have been women, " Mom told me, "there have been ways to punish them for being women.

Perhaps that is where our choice lies -- in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.

There is no such thing as unconditional love, " my mother told me. "I could stop loving you at any time.

That's who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.

We are a society of notoriously unhappy people: lonely, anxious, depressed, destructive, dependent — people who are glad when we have killed the time we are trying so hard to save.

In some remote regions of Islam it is said a woman caught unveiled by a stranger will raise her skirt to cover her face.

I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.

Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.

It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig.

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19.

Don't face the day until you've faced God.

Free enterprise, individual opportunity, limited government. They made America great; only they can keep America strong.

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.