I think biologically we are attracted to more than one person, but given society and our needs, monogamy works better.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

Be bold enough to let your destiny determine how far you get to travel in life instead of your fears and doubts.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

The splitting of the atom has changed everything except for how we think.

I've always been a private person and I've always valued my private life.

Government doesn't work. You work, I work, Federal Express works, Microsoft works, the Salvation Army works, Alcoholics Anonymous works, but government doesn't.

We know that a peaceful world cannot long exist, one-third rich and two-thirds hungry.

it's good to know who hates you and it is good to be hated by the right people

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

All the trials and tribulations have paid off. In life, you have setbacks...When you're in your valley, that's when you're tested the most -not when you're at your peak.