Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Nobility, I always have one thing common with you, I always think you’re an angel

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

It's closer to just acting in a film because it was a six-month commitment. We got to fly all over the world.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers

Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.

Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise!

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.