If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

the conspicuous consumption of limited resources has yet to be accepted widely as a spiritual error, or even bad manners

I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.

The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)

Love is a key ingredient for creativity.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

I'm way hot," he muttered. "But I don't feel sick. Just — way hot." Fang

Wallace Stevens: the Platonist celebrates endless change, but with regret.

Basketball is great; no one in Europe seems to believe just how close the spectators can sit to the players.

I don't have one track that I consider better than the next because all I'm trying to do is still grow as an artist.

I don't have any interest in changing a system, because the system will simply get bucked back by people who haven't changed.