Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Why indeed must 'God' be a noun? Why not a verb - the most active and dynamic of all.

Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

I had explained that a woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

Courage to be is the key to revelatory power of the feminist revolution.

'God's plan' is often a front for men's plans and a cover for inadequacy, ignorance, and evil.

Women have had the power of naming stolen from us.

A woman's asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person's demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.

Almost everything has been stolen from us by the patriarchy. Our creativity has been stolen, our creative energies, our religion. I want it back.

For a radical feminist to try to change the church was like a black person trying to reform the Ku Klux Klan.

I didn't study theology out of piety. I studied it because I wanted to know.

I don't want to be a fulfilled woman.

I hate the Bible. I always did.

I have a theory of living on the boundary: on the boundary of patriarchy and the boundary of different dimensions.

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

I was honestly a Catholic.

I'm a complete deviant. All creative work breaks new ground.

I'm trying to get to a deep future, but in order to get to a deep future, I had to think about the deep past.

Radical feminism is still threatening.

The Adequate Protest demands far more than protests. It calls for Great and Daring Leaps of Integrity and Courage to See.

The message is risk, really risk. Be yourself. Create.

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They took away my classroom and my status to teach, and now they have taken away my office, and all of it is giving the message that Virginia Woolf and I are losing what I call 'womenspace.'

People always want cars. It's a huge industry, and there's always new product coming out.

I feel myself part of something. Not only being part of a community but part of an actual moment and a movement of Irish writing and art. That sense of being part of the whole thing is the deepest joy.

Often I hear people say they do not have time to read. That's absolute nonsense. In the one year during which I kept that kind of record, I read twenty-five books while waiting for people. In offices, applying for jobs, waiting to see a dentist, waiting in a restaurant for friends, many such places.

The chips are in production, the machines aren't. So we've got a little bit of work left to do.

This summer had been about finding herself, and learning to accept love in its various forms -- and to give love.

For my part, it was Greek to me.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate.

At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

It's terrible when the one who does the judging judges things all wrong.

I think the nine justices think the solicitor general is the 35th clerk.

I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.

I think Hollywood makes the mistake of mixing all these identities and cultures, mostly from the Middle East.

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty race geography and local politics.

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

When you finish a series like 'Ugly Betty,' there are so many voices around you telling you what you should be doing next and what would be good for your future, sometimes you can't hear yourself. I've gotten pretty good at tuning everyone else out. Now it's just me; what pleases me creatively.

I have this problem with violence. I've only done one movie in almost 20 years where I killed people. It's called Perdita Durango. It's a Spanish movie. I'm very proud of the movie, but I felt weird doing that.

I'll get mine in a few years, when I get up there and when the time comes.

Christmas is a story that has both religious and pagan origins, and to ignore its power is to ignore the power of myth - those symbols and legends that help us to ground our lives.

If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies.

With out art, without communicating, we wouldn't live beyond 30 because we'd be so sad and depressed.

I love doing eyes - my signature look is a cat eye. I think it's so feminine, and it reminds me of old Hollywood.

We need to build bridges between the LGBT community and the larger immigrant community. In the end, the bigger the tent we build, the more successful we'll be.