I think the truth is that finding ourselves brings more excitement and well-being than anything romance has to offer, and somewhere we know that.

Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

The feminist call was for women to embrace ways of seeing beauty and adorning ourselves that are healthy, life-affirming, and not overly time-time consuming.

Morality is the weakness of the mind.

My parents lived in a poor rural community on the Eastern Shore, and schools were still segregated. And I remember when lawyers came into our community to open up the public schools to black kids.

Our impulses are our birthright. To alter personality would be unjust, almost criminal, for the impulses that make a fool or worse of us in certain circumstances may be necessary for our happiness.

Mom was a housewife; Dad was an accountant. They taught me a lot about the value of working hard.

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice.

My mom was the poster girl for the Marines. So she was in the poster saying, "I want you." My parents were both Marines.

When you are sad or in pain or sick or you witness any cremation then you actually learn the many truths of life.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

I belong deeply to myself.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.