Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

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.

Why can't a girl just want to know stuff and not do stuff?

Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.

Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.

All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

He's so fat, he can be his own running mate.

I have a very strange relationship in general with women around my music. There's some that understand it and some that think there should be a law against it.

If you have a Stradivarius and nobody to play it, it's just a Stradivarius. Or is it even that? It's nothing.

Space is hard - but worth it. We will persevere and move forward together.

When I read a good book, it's like traveling the world without ever leaving my chair.

I don't really like knees.