There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

To know oneself means above all to know what one likes

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

Our focus must always be on building people up.

I'm always looking for new talent.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

To make big steps, you've got to take action yourself and not listen to other people.

It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary.

If you get tough mentally, you can get tough physically and overcome fatigue.

A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, "In silence."

Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.