I'm not a pacifist. I'm not that brave.

Suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem.

I have had time to analyze my feelings. I am certain that they are totally neurotic, sexist, silly, and a big waste of time.

I was proud of the waves I had made, but wondered how many boats I was supposed to rock.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

Spanking and verbal criticism have become, to many parents, more important tools of child rearing than approval.

The establishment people tell us that if the workers wanted to share the profits, it was called communism. When management wants to share profits, it's called a bonus.

The House looks like more fun. It's like the Donahue show. The Senate is like one of those Sunday morning public service programs.

The system of volunteerism is divisive. It pits one charity against the others for the charity dollar.

I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana.

We should not use crippled children to sell hamburgers. Ever.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field.I'll meet you there.

My thick and full lips shall pout their African ancestry until all sorrows are kissed out of me.

Also surprising to scientists have been the recently documented virgin births in captivity of several types of sharks—the hammerhead, the bonnethead (also known as the shovelhead), and the blacktip.

I am persuaded that luck and timing have in my case been very important.

Sometimes when it comes to the iconic kind of moments, when I read the script for the first time, you get little goose bumps or something because it really is kind of exciting.

Identification of rhythm as the casual counterpart of life; wherever there is some life, only perceptible to us when the analogies are sufficiently close.

I think feminism has had a major impact on anthropology

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.

One person caring about another represents life's greatest value.

Love as a power can go anywhere. It isn't sentimental. It doesn't have to be pretty, yet it doesn't deny pain.