It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

Man is not the enemy here, but the fellow victim.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

It is better for a woman to compete impersonally in society, as men do, than to compete for dominance in her own home with her husband, compete with her neighbors for empty status, and so smother her son that he cannot compete at all.

I was at a meeting two years ago in Beijing, and I passed a bunch of women who were marching in a protest. Their signs were probably saying something I wouldn't have agreed with at all. But I was so glad to see women marching. And it's happening all over the world.

Men weren't really the enemy - they were fellow victims suffering from an outmoded masculine mystique that made them feel unnecessarily inadequate when there were no bears to kill.

Men are not the enemy, but the fellow victims. The real enemy is women's denigration of themselves.

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of man's advance in the professions, or by refusing to compete with man at all.

No woman gets an orgasm from shining the kitchen floor.

When she stopped conforming to the conventional picture of femininity she finally began to enjoy being a woman.

It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question who am I except the voice inside herself.

Women who adjust as housewives who grow up wanting to be just a housewife are in as much danger as the millions who walked to their own death in the concentration camps ... they ate suffering a slow death of mind and spirit.

Advice? I don't offer advice. Not my business. Your life is what you make it.

I will write another book if I feel like it.

Palm Sunday is like a glimpse of Easter. It's a little bit joyful after being somber during Lent.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

We'll serve, on a good Saturday night six or seven thousand people in all the restaurants, and it's like, the percentages are that maybe one person's not going to like what they get. And I can't be there to fix it. I hate that. We're in this business to make things that please people.

I don't know what I was trying to get out of a tenor - but it never really satisfied me until one day I picked up my alto and I said, "Where have you been?" and I said right here for now on!

There is something to grace and deportment, but you determine that for yourself. That's something you own.

Basic Economics 101. It's the most complicated simple subject there is.

The truth is this is a very dangerous world.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back.

Seven is more than a lucky number or a famous baseball player's uniform. It's the brain's natural shepherd, herding vast amounts of information into manageable chunks.

There's always constantly interesting things to do, and who knows, maybe I will be a good sculptor. I haven't decided what I am going to do next, but I am not going to quit just because I did something interesting.

I just love the color purple on me, because it goes really well with my eye color.

At our computer club, we talked about it being a revolution. Computers were going to belong to everyone, and give us power, and free us from the people who owned computers and all that stuff.

I find humans tremendously interesting.

Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups.

As an actor, you pay attention very closely to everything that happens to you, and you're constantly watching others as well, trying to just find out where everything comes from.

I always say, 'Let your experiment speak to you.' What I mean by that is I - actually, we, or, at least, I'm not smart enough, actually, to guess how nature is working, but by looking and doing the right experiments and paying close attention to the subtleties of it, you start to catch on.

When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

I remember watching 'The Wire,' because I absolutely adored 'The Wire,' and there were so many secret layers within that drama, and it was just fantastic.

The ideal of interreligious dialogue where all men and women from different religious traditions can speak to one another without arguing. This is what religious freedom allows.

Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players and the staff how grateful I am to be playing for such a good football club. The fans have taken well to me. I am part of the furniture at Everton, but I don't take it for granted.

My father was a soil scientist with the Geological Survey.