Every time women make tremendous strides, the right wing gets terrified and creates laws making it hard to get an abortion or birth control.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

Ambivalence is a wonderful tune to dance to. It has a rhythm all its own.

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

How wonderful to have someone to blame! How wonderful to live with one's nemesis! You may be miserable, but you feel forever in the right.

My generation was not only maligned in book reviews and attacked in graduate school but we lived to see our adored and adorable daughters wonder why feminism had become a dirty word.

You know your Lamborghini is on fire, right?

If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.

Since he had given up men he had taken up geography. He visited a new sight or a new neighborhood nearly every weekend.

Maybe we knew each other in another life. Or maybe we were just meant to find each other in this one.

No one can give you freedom but you.

The definition of hell in the legal system is: endless due process and no justice; (in the corporate world) it would be: endless due diligence and no horse sense.

All the technology in the world will never replace a positive attitude.

There is no one who does not represent a danger to someone.

That strategy of buy and hold, which is the sound and sensible one for the individual, can have very dangerous and perverse effects for the market as a whole.

Part of the potential of things is how they break