In China, a lot of the opening up of private entrepreneurship is happening because women are starting businesses, small businesses, faster than men.

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.

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

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.

Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

But the economy's out of control. Money just doesn't need human beings anymore. Most of us only get in the way.

It's not a good idea to cut back indiscriminately on what you read. The reason is that reading can save you time, because it gives you the opportunity to learn from other people's experience.

To deal with a 14-dimensional space, visualize a 3-D space and say 'fourteen' to yourself very loudly. Everyone does it.

I use charcoal a lot. Partly because it has such a fantastic range but also because it is very easy to erase. For me, drawing is a lot to do with taking out, with returning to the white of the paper.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

By my senior year in high school, I was friends with every group

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's gin.