Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.

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.

She felt damned. As though she were marching to her death. She felt like had been sentenced. And yet she felt eerily free.

What's great about today? I AM experiencing great prosperity and a sudden increase in abundance.

For it is the business of Ethics, I must insist, not only to obtain true results, but also to find valid reasons for them.

Equality and self-determination should never be divided in the name of religious or ideological fervor.

Music scores your life. You interact with it. It becomes the soundtrack to that one summer with that one girl.

People don't work in factories, [they aren't] big muscular guys. The working class is flabby because they're sitting in front of a computer all day, but it's still their labor being extracted.

Eventually companion animals would be phased out, and we would return to a more symbiotic relationship - enjoyment at a distance.

The stress of an action diminishes rapidly after that action is performed.

The more spiritually aware we are, the more harmonious and fulfilling are our lives.

I had grown up and gone to high school in New York, so I wanted to get out of the east coast.