I think moms need to share information on a regular, intimate basis.

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.

You don't feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.

The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.

Once he's on the run, Messi is unstoppable. He's the only player who can change direction at such a pace.

Paradises an only be made with our own hands, with our own creativity in harmony with the free creativity of nature.

Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

Life is a ladder, it's not a bed