I see the effects of sexual and gender liberation all around me, just like you do, but I don't have a sense of being in the majority.

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.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Don’t judge a bird by its feathers

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

When you walk in distinction, you don’t compete with anyone but competition wants to compete with you.

To see the miracle, you must be the miracle.

The opposite of love is apathy or hatred.

What really drives me is sharing the power of makeup with every woman.

I don't go to church regularly. I wouldn't say I was religious, but more spiritual.

The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.

We love those we are happy with. We do. For how else can we know we love them, or how else define loving?