The general image of a man in an American sitcom is like a complete moron. You'd think the industry was run by a feminist cabal.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.

The less theorizing you do about God, the more receptive you are to His inpouring.

Whenever I'm sad, I just put on 'SpongeBob' and I cheer up.

I never say "get like me". I would hate for my competition to be on my level. In fact, stay exactly with what your doing.

Once I got to high school and auditioned for a play and got in, I thought this was really what I was looking for. Once that had got cleared up, from 13 on, that was it.

There is not so contemptible a plant or animal that does not confound the most enlarged understanding.

All we can know is our own subjective version of reality. That's the way we go through our lives. Everybody.

Everything should be at once surprising and inevitable.

Your truths are worse than your lies.

Up to the age of 14 I had not heard a note of anything before 1750, never heard a note of Bach, never heard anything after Wagner, and never heard any real jazz.