I’m not a politician. I think that uniquely qualifies me to become president of the U.S.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

There is no such thing as failure. There are only results.

the most comfortable characteristic of the period [1775-1825], and the one which incites our deepest envy, is the universal willingness to accept a good purpose as a substitute for good work.

It's the stupid questions that have some of the most surprising and interesting answers. Most people never think to ask the stupid questions.

Aggressiveness is good in a combat leader. Combining that with ambition and insecurity becomes more problematic.

I would like to do a novel where some curse turns that into how the world really is - a blessing or a curse, I don't know which.

All of a sudden, people are going to decide they want to go micro, everything's smaller.

I can understand that memory must be selective, else it would choke on the glut of experience. What I cannot understand is why it selects what it does.

There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't