The day I worry about cleaning my house is the day Sears comes out with a riding vacuum cleaner.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Where can you go from nowhere, except deeper into nowhere?

Anger is an appropriate reaction to racist attitudes, as is fury when the actions arising from those attitudes do not change.

I, more or less, love camping out, so I dug it, but I didn't enjoy other people's pain.

Some of my favorite all-time movies - Wong Kar-wai is just amazing. In the Mood for Love is probably my favorite film ever. Those lyrical montages are so stunning.

The album requires a certain focus of mine that I can't really explain - let's just say it's all I can really do while I'm doing it.

A chair must be really important as an object, because my mother always told me to offer my chair to a lady

The word doctrine, as used in the Bible, means teaching of duty, not theory.

Words command us. Names define us. Definitions bind us. Words are where we keep our sacred secrets.

Flattery is the worst and falsest way of showing our esteem.

The marvels - of film, radio, and television - are marvels of one-way communication, which is not communication at all.