Vous travaillez pour l'armee, madame?' (You are working for the army?), a Frenchwoman said to me early in the Vietnam war, on hearing I had three sons.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

Are you kidding me? The last time I saw a face like yours, I fed it a banana.

I opened my eyes really wide and fluttered my eyelashes at him. "I'm sorry, I must've missed your coronation ceremony. Silly me." from Clean Sweep

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

We often do not know ourselves the grounds On which we act, though plain to others.

Speaking truth will rarely earn you friends, but it will reveal who your true friends are and who are true friends of Christ.

The combination of population growth and the growth in consumption is a danger that we are not prepared for and something we will need global co-operation on.

I keep one eye on the path I didn't choose every day.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.