I grew up in a working-class Israeli family, which was feminist only in its female-dominated structure.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

On a ship that's made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you.)

Fancies were all very well for a change, but must be only occasional guests in a world devoted to reality.

An individual's perception is their reality colored in the shades they desire--not necessarily the color that it is.

Isn't watching sacred potential kill itself as good a punishment as eternal fire?

Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues.

My name's Darren. I'm a musician, part time idiot. That's a full time job actually.

Traditionally people are on the side of the government all the time.

[Janco] paused. His eyes held a distant gleam as if seeing into his past. 'My first practice was a shock. I was a cocky smart aleck--' [Opal] 'Was?' [J] 'Be quiet. I'm telling a story here.

We live to avoid death, we exist to avoid unexistence

Our task in life is to find our deep soul work and throw ourselves headlong into it.