I don’t respect my husband because he is the man and I am the woman, and it’s my “place” to submit to him. I respect Dan because he is a good person, and because he has made me a better person too.

Like all who search for truth out of fear, I desperately wanted someone else to tell me exactly what to do.

We turned an anthem into an assignment, a poem into a job description.

Caring for the poor, resting on the Sabbath, showing hospitality and keeping the home—these are important things that can lead us to God, but God is not contained in them.

If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.

While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

I have heard queens' swans, moved a man to cry, heard Bach played in the Metro on guitars.I have made love in Paris. Let me die.

I think it must somewhere be written that the virtues of mothers shall be visited on their children, as well as the sins of their fathers.

You cannot cure racism with more racism.

[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

The exception does not prove the rule.

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

But I am not allowed to speak to foreigners and I am not allowed to leave the country. So I'm not so happy.