I always preferred having wings to having things.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

As we stood there, chest high in water, I felt like I was in the middle of my own romance novel.

Our creative dreams are subject to grudge-holding when we decide that other people somehow have made their dreams real and we have not.

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

I've always been told I have a giant placenta.

Destruction is a true sign of devotion. As I always tell my girlfriend when she threatens to kill me. 'You should kill me and it would tell me that you love me.

Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain subjective, negative, ungrateful way.

I grew up with a very quick temper, and the language of violence is a language that I'm very familiar and comfortable with.

Literature is a vast bazaar where customers come to purchase everything except mirrors.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

David will never go to space again. I'm glad.What did it gain the McQuarries? What has it ever gained men? Have men ever brought back more happiness from the stars? Will they ever?