A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Women must understand that simply attacking or hating men is just another form of disempowerment. A woman has to realize that when she makes a man crawl it doesn't give her power.

Guys would sleep with a bicycle if it had the right color lip gloss on. They have no shame. They're like bull elks in a field.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.

It's emotional blackmail to say if you're a good businesswoman and a musician, you're betraying your music.

People think I'm nuts because I can sit in a room and be happy by myself.

The sense of loss is such a tricky one, because we always feel like our worth is tied up into stuff that we have, not that our worth can grow with things we are willing to lose.

Some people hide more than others, and it does intrigue me.

Psi and/or magical powers, if real, are nearly useless.

There is nothing in human affairs that is a true subject for ridicule. Beneath comedy lies the ferment of tragedy

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

As you see, it is not that I don't know my own mind, I know it very well but only up to a certain point in the matter. I know perfectly well what the question is. It's the answer I want.

Parties are a cruel kind of fun.

Without spiritual landmarks, mankind wanders . . . Without the word of God, we walk in circles.

You go to Pennsylvania, you go to Ohio, you go to Florida, you go to any of them. You go upstate New York. Our jobs have fled to Mexico and other places.

Who'd bear to hear the Gracchi chide sedition?

Non-profits must become deeply engaged in the ways that their donor communities are using social technology.

To my knowledge, no progressive educator has ever suggested that children didn't need to know the "mere facts" about the contributions of African Americans to our society.