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

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.

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.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all but, to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

All the pain on the outside can not undo what is felt on the inside.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

The true genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined to some particular direction.

The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others.

We are on the Colorado — that means something more to me than electric power or a harnessed river.

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

I'm just a weapon of the god.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.