Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Within your heart keep one still secret spot where dreams may go.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

I shoot fantasy. If you want reality, ride the bus

I've supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality and fairness for all.

Don't live worried, frustrated or upset because of what somebody did or what didn't work out. Come back to a place of peace. It's not going to work against you; it's going to work for you.

Like a midget at a urinal I was going to have to stay on my toes.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

Fervent prayer keeps your true identity in focus.

If you go around the league, anybody with the last name 'vich' is a great shooter. Radmanovic, Vujacic... all those 'iches.

In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond.