Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

One's character is set at an early age. The choices you make now will affect you for the rest of your life. I hate to see you swim out so far you can't swim back.

There is something mankind can never destroy in spite of an unreasoning will to destruction, and this is its own idealism, that integral part of its very being.

I think cars encapsulate the history of innovation and style - it's the other side of the coin of the car being public enemy No.1.

When you're doing late night you're on the grind every night; you send someone to check on your mom.

Whatever you do, whatever you're working with, whether it's manual work or talking to people or buying or selling, every little thing encompasses the power and simplicity of presence.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.

I am curious about grownups, not children.

Where were you born?" "On a battlefield," [Yossarian] answered. "No, no. In what state were you born?" "In a state of innocence.

By working together to focus on our national priorities today we can ensure that the state of our union is strong for the future.