I've wanted to be with you since the first time you turned me down. I've just been waiting for you to come around.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

In the moment when I truly understand my enemy, understand him well enough to defeat him, then in that very moment I also love him...

Home is where you feel loved, and homeland is where you love.

My lone desire stands, looking like beauty on a cloud, ripe for my picking, ready for me to ravish and pleasure. Waiting for me to tempt and tease. Satisfy and gratify.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

The progression of emancipation of any class usually, if not always, takes place through the efforts of individuals of that class.

The role at the DCCC as well as the role of chief deputy whip - I wouldn't be where I am in those spots if it were not for the speaker's approval.

It would probably be too easy a cop out to say that just Republican males hate me. Though there's a large swath of them, for sure.

Always put yourself in others' shoes. If you feel that it hurts you, it probably hurts the other person, too.

Our [American] leaders are so socialized as to address militarized threats by acting on the basis of a militarized mentality that the deep roots of problems are ignored.

You don't blame us for being here, do you? After all, we have no place to go. No home... Incidentally, what an excellent day for an exorcism.