The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

It is not the one that falls first that matters, but the one that gets up to help the other

Only cowards leave words unspoken.

People think it's a terrible tragedy when somebody has Alzheimer's. But in my mother's case, it's different. My mother has been unhappy all her life. For the first time in her life, she's happy.

No other island received as much preliminary pounding as did Iwo Jima.

Now is our time to change the world

Basically, therefore, we should approach others openly, recognizing each person as another human being just like ourselves. There is not much difference between us all.

The faster some talents work, the more risk plays into the equation and then the opportunities for injury increases.

What's exciting about watching a movie, when it's finished, is you sometimes you don't recognize yourself, and that's when I'm really proud.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

Very few conflicts in the history of the world have been satisfactorily concluded according to a published timetable, because you lose all flexibility in dealing with your opponents.