I think sometimes by portraying our lives as being too perfect, as being too balanced, we're actually selling younger women a bill of goods that's not true.

We've reached the point where the demand for rules is about to replace the demand for chaos.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Rather than seeing the opportunities that feminism created they very easy morph into expectations.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

If we don't find a way to keep women in the workforce, keep them productive, keep them happy, we are literally just throwing our investment down the drain, and we can't afford to do that.

I certainly want to be ambitious for women. I'm ambitious for myself. I think women can definitely find areas in which they want to excel.

Don't take too much credit for your children - or too much blame!

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

My mom had this romantic notion of her children playing classical music. The idea is you learn it when you're still learning language. It's using the same part of the brain.

When I paint a person, his enemies always find the portrait a good likeness.

And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

One thing I don't want around me is a military intellectual. I don't have to worry about you on that score.

My job is to try and bring attention to places that don't have it

Agape is the catalyst that makes value appear in anything.

She pulls a razor from her boot and a thousand victims fall around her feet.