Abortion is a woman's right.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

She clasped his hands and pressed her lips to them. 'I want you to be proud of me, ' he repeated. She dropped his hands, feeling defeated.

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

There is something about the fifteen-year-old mind -- a kind of skin or veil or walling off from feelings not your own.

Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher.

We have to remember that our defense is not just a commitment of money, it is a commitment of will.

We never know the timber of a man's soul until something cuts into him deeply and brings the grain out strong. You've the making of a mighty fine piece of furniture.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

What if I told you that 10 years from now, your life would be exactly the same? I doubt you would be happy. So, why are you so afraid of change?

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Imagine you waking up tomorrow and you can't get a bank account; you can't get a credit union account. Everything has gone away and you're now living in poverty.