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.

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.

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.

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.

Men may act as cruelly as dragons, but dragons will never act as men do.

It’s herding kittens. If kittens had a lot of guns and an overdose of neo-Libertarian property theory.

From a fallen tree make kindling.

A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.

... to mention honor was to suggest its opposite.

It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen

Nothing that is worthwhile is ever easy.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.