NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

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.

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.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.

Human bodies are such garbage bags.

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.

Everybody knows it hurts to grow up...and we're still fighting it.

No man however great is greater than his people

There is no right religion, and no one can prove that there is.

True greatness merely refuses to change in the face of bad actions against one—and a truly great person loves his fellows because he understands them.

No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.

Only one human being recognized as one's neighbour is necessary in order to cure a man of self-love