Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

We mothers are learning to mark our mothering success by our daughters' lengthening flight.

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the family were a fruit, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable - each segment distinct.

A toy has no gender and no idea of whether a girl or boy is playing with it.

If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles.

If knowledge is power, clandestine knowledge is power squared; it can be withheld, exchanged, and leveraged.

Friends can be said to "fall in like" with as profound a thud as romantic partners fall in love.

No labourer in the world is expected to work for room, board, and love -except the housewife.

We are products of our culture and interpret the world through our mental conditioning.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.

most people are perfectly afraid of silence

True love is a high and holy principle, altogether different in character from that love which is awakened by impulse and which suddenly dies when severely tested.

We were trained from cartoons. Everything who was on the screen was chosen. Anything who was not there was deliberately not there.

It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Hitler really ruined that mustache for everybody. It’s really an interesting mustache, but now, no one can wear it.

When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.

I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.