Without children, men have more liberty to earn less - that is, they are free to pursue more fulfilling and less lucrative careers, like writing or art or teaching social studies.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

I also realize that hard work is the only way I can express all that I carry within me.

That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.

O bid me mount and sail up thereAmid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' loveThat had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stayHave changed their silk for sack.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

[On Thomas Seymour's death:] This day died a man of much wit and very little judgment.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

Vision stands on the shoulders of what is actual to get a better view of what is possible.

When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

We do not keep the outward form of order, where there is deep disorder in the mind.