Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

The gentleman does not promote people merely on the basis of their words, nor does he reject words merely because of the person who uttered them.

One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it.

Bill Powell is the only intelligent actor I've ever met

Secrets are more powerful when people know you've got them," said Mr. Sutton. "You show them the tiniest edge of your secret, but the rest you keep under wraps.

words are our most inexhaustible source of magic.

We are all humans and all deserve the same respect and attention.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

Every band always tells you to raise your middle finger.

Players play, tough players win.