Oh, I know all about my mother and me,' you may say. 'All that business with my mother was over years ago.' You don't and it wasn't.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

In order to be a really good investor, you need to be a little bit of a philosopher as well.

The number one cause of unfulfilled potential is never deciding that NOW matters more than any other time in your life.

Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!

A lovely countenance is the fairest of all sights, and the sweetest harmony is the sound of the voice of her whom we love.

I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.

The whole fame and fortune thing is addictive.

I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding.

Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.

My mom raised me to be clean, so it's in my nature. I have two little girls and I'm married but we've got a nanny and a maid.

I've always loved watching the news on TV. As a kid, I loved watching Walter Cronkite, for some reason.