Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.

The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

When I stopped seeing my mother through the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Inside every adult male is a denied little boy.

Blaming mother is just a negative way of clinging to her still.

Dreams are the expression of the unconscious while we are asleep.

Fantasy isn't something you run out of.

I like the company of men. I've never been welcome in those groups, but then I would no more go to a consciousness-raising group and talk about my intimate life with my husband than fly to the moon. I never understood all that.

I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

I think the thing I miss most in our age is our manners. It sounds so old-fashioned in a way. But even bad people had good manners in the old days, and manners hold a community together, and manners hold a family together; in a way, they hold the world together.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

The very atmosphere of firearms anywhere and everywhere restrains evil interference - they deserve a place of honor with all that's good.

I recognize that it often serves competitors best to talk past each other - especially when you are trying to claim the fleeting attentions of voters on a debate stage or on social media. But think how much more clarity we could get if the people who wanted to be president clearly explained why he or she is the better choice.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

We can't save the world by playing by the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change - and it has to start today.

The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.

What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.

I'm not really a cutter-off sort of person. I'll chat to anybody.

There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

America should function as a Christian nation.

I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.

I am committed to ovarian cancer research on a national level and in my community in the Carolinas. It is important to me to know the women that are true fighters of this difficult disease.

Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.

Only my phone number and email are private because I don't want random people calling me. But I like the ability to share everything.

When I turned 18, my mom, my nana and I all went and had tattoos of our favorite Bible verses put on the inside of our wrists. Mine is 1st Timothy, 4:12.

Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.

I love the intimacy of venues like the House of Blues. When everyone is packed in and so close to you, it makes you play differently. It's so much more fun to play because there's so much more high energy in a place like that.

I fought a boxer who everybody said I couldn't beat - Sugar Ray Leonard. They said he was faster than me. That he was the best of the best. And I beat him.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life -- to be happy -- it's all that matters.

You know what I have noticed? And this is really sad. Flying first class is less scary than flying coach. They speak to you and they're so nice to you and they want to help you and they know you want a drink before the plane takes off. And they bring it to you without asking. If you're sitting in coach and hoping for a drink, good luck.

No one can be considered untouchable on political grounds.

I need to write to be happy.

A language presupposes that all the individual users possess the organs.