As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

Pain is as expansive as life itself. Pain grows with us and in us as a cultivation of life's unfolding.

Zen teaches nothing; it merely enables us to wake up and become aware. It does not teach, it points.

Showbiz is great if you're successful.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

Say and do what you mean, but never say and do it meanly.

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

To almost die is to know that one day you will, and to never again feel the same about anything.

You can learn all sorts of rules and techniques of writing and still not be able to assemble something beautiful or enchanting.

The best lie is often one too ridiculous to be taken for a lie.