Men tuned into women but not tuned into their own hurts usually retained the attitude that women needed special protection.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.

Don’t equate effective living to being busy

We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.

Give God time.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is we'll find it.

There's only one thing to do with politics, and that is to survive it.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

Friendships begin because, even without words, we understand how someone feels.

Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey.

I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.