I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

A lot of times nerds are really artists listening to the beat of another drummer.

Every novel is an ideal plane inserted into the realm of reality.

Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

Me: "All right, but you said we had to put emotion into our art. I don't know what that means. I don't know what I'm supposed to feel.

I pick up on styles, way before they get popular, pretty much before young kids do. I see 'em coming.

Landscape is a piece that is emotional and psychological.

The only way I see an out is for you to take full responsibility.

You were firing questions at me today, trying to get inside my head. You asked if I believe in God. I told you of course I do - I've always had a strong sense of self

Myths are stories that express meaning, morality or motivation. Whether they are true or not is irrelevant.

I was doing what I love to do: play baseball. Not going to complain about that.

The person who practices an art is an artist, not a samurai, and one should have the intention of being called a samurai.