If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing to keep doing it

We shall all respect the principle of each other and do nothing that would be regarded as an act oppression to any portion of the people

I'm not loyal to one genre. I want to mix it up.

We only consult the ear because the heart is wanting.

Nine million terrorists in the world and I gotta kill one with feet smaller than my sister.

The first step is crucial - keep it tiny. Do not be ambitious yet. That leads to failure. Consistency is what you’re shooting for here so make the hurdle as low as possible.

To a pure heart all hearts are pure.

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.