My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity

Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.

The altar must be built in one place so that the fire may come down in another place.

Welcome to the Information Jungle.

To do nothing is the way to be nothing.

Hope is not a prediction of the future, it's a declaration of what is possible.

It was flattering to have someone listen so intently to something that was so personal.

Those who attempts to explain a picture are on the wrong track most of the time.

I use a lot of double-tonguing [using the tongue to control airflow]; that allows me to play as fast as if I was slurring, but with clean articulation on every note.

Collaborating with someone who doesn't understand your language nor you theirs stretches you open even wider, into a sort of very large free fall.