I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

It is only in marriage with the world that our ideals can bear fruit divorced from it they remain barren.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

To lose hope in the future is to begin to die.

No man born of woman has ever understood spoken Portuguese.

Sometimes if you've got a story that's interesting enough, you don't need to pour sugar on ice cream. The ice cream is great.

According to recent studies, at least one star out of three is multiple.

And if I'm running away from something, I try to make myself face it and overcome that initial fear. As a director, I don't think it's possible to make a movie that you really don't want to make.