Being forced into early retirement can be to a man what being "given up for a younger woman" is for a woman.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.

One danger of a man succeeding is that it teaches his wife and daughter not to worry about success.

The weakness of men is the facade of strength; the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Hazing is both testing and training to subordinate self to the team.

The government passed more laws to protect women from dirty jokes than to protect men from death by faulty rafters at a construction site.

If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?

Men are not only women's unpaid bodyguards, they actually pay to be a woman's bodyguard.

I define power as control over ones life. A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.

All I want to do, ever, is play chess.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

You're not lost in a storm, Marilyn. You are the storm!

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

Whatever we read from intense curiosity gives us a model of how we should always read.

You have to allow for the impossible to be possible.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

Powerful women are the most interesting to play.

I came from somewhat of a musical family. I had an uncle on Broadway. My dad kind of knows how to play instruments. Although, I always find it annoying when he does play an instrument.