Women only cut their hair in times of crisis... It's somethin' a woman always has the power to do, even when she loses control over everything else. Cuttin' hair is a cry for help.

People aren't often asked to make life or death decisions. There are no causes to die for. You can go through life never knowing which of your friends would really come through for you

Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.

I think women sign on for some ideal when they get married, and when they realise they haven't got anything close to what they want, they bury their disappointment.

Children expect their mothers to love them, no matter what. Those who don't get this tend to feel cheated the rest of their lives.

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive.

Where westand depends on where we sit.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams and endeavors to live the life which he has imaged he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.

The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves.

If you see the illusion you are enlightened, but if you think that you are enlightened you are in the illusion!

If we live in the Nineteenth Century, why should we not enjoy the advantages which the Nineteenth Century offers? Why should our life be in any respect provincial?

Art and the triumph of the human spirit - the two combined thrill me.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

Karl Marx was in favor of socialist and communist-socialist revolutions, but he had a pretty nuanced view about it.

Most of the problems of government come from people being overwhelmed by the size and scale of what they have to do.

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at.