I'm like the kid in kindergarten I really do send valentines to everyone.

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

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.

A thinker will die, but his profound ideas have wings that fly forever.

Truth is my weapon. Knowledge is my armor. Wisdom is my strategist. Love is my warrior.

Regarding war and peace—the seed of each is planted in the other.

...it is my belief that all of us suffer from some kind of mental instability. What would you say if I told you we all are a little crazy?

Yes there were 15 to 20 terrorists. We managed to capture both of them!

Love listens to the other person and searches for clues on ways to serve, bless and lift up that person.

I'm at the mercy of others because I'm not a director. I'm not a producer. I'm not a writer.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

I wouldn't want to think people doted on us, hung on every word, or wanted to look like us.

The light is within. It is already there. Take your time to see it.