Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

You are not walking slow enough, when taking a walk, if you do not come across as bored or depressed (to the average sane person).

I spent many a summer early morning with the radio very low, half sleeping and half listening.

We take our kids for physical vaccinations, dental exams, eye checkups. When do we think to take our - our son or daughter for a mental health checkup?

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

Immigration reforms are always controversial. Our Congress was created to muster political will to answer such challenges. Today we didn't, but tomorrow we will. I yield the floor.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions.

The Kurds are the greatest fighting force and our strongest allies. They're Muslim.

And when we would make much of that which cannot matter much to thee, forgive us -a frequent part of the prayer that opened sermons.

Ownership is not a vice, not something to be ashamed of, but rather a commitment, and an instrument by which the general good can be served.