Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.

I would love to be on a Real Housewives from somewhere reality show. Then I could show all those women how the rest of our society gets to do it.

Some people that are in charge are usually less intelligent than the people who work under them. The reason why those people are in charge and you aren’t is because you have a conscience.

I love having to attend the one class that is being taught by a professor who feels that their class is the only class being taught at the University and gives nothing but busy work.

In the realm of ideas, everything depends on enthusiasm. ... In the real world, all rests on perseverance.

Strategy is about heading North while keeping an eye on the South.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

A piece of cloth that is called "linen" has more validity than calling you and me "black" or "negro." "Cotton" has more validity as cotton than yours and my being "black."

Etiquette? What kind of etiquette was there in someone trying to murder me?

There is something that happens when we leave the land and enter the ocean. It's unexpected, the environment feels strangely welcoming. The ocean almost feels like... home.

Give me back the $800 billion for the Iraq war and children's television PBS is on the house.

If your ethics in the military, in your training, is going to be counterminded by a one-hour weekly television show we've got a really big problem.

Death means you are in the third person.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.