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

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

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

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 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.

Living happily is a matter of holding on to your peace of mind and celebrating your life daily while you still have it.

The presidents of colleges have to have some courage to step forward. You can't limit alcohol in college sports, you have to get rid of it.

God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose

Agencies which frequently work nights and weekends are more stimulating, more successful - and more profitable.

God is so good that He only awaits our desire to overwhelm us with the gift of himself.

It comes a time in your life that you will no longer live for yourself anymore. You never know how much a person can mean to you until one comes into your life, and changes it for the best.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

None seem to bear the imputation of supposed guilt with greater intolerance than such as are, on other occasions, obviously culpable of vice or crime.

it's impossible I should have a mind and I have one

I grew up fascinated with comedy and with people who could capture someone's attention.