If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Words or fists, it didn't matter. The soul was still shattered.

There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I'm pleased to be with you. (Pause) That concludes my prepared remarks.

Television is like the invention of indoor plumbing. It didn't change people's habits. It just kept them inside the house.

The first comedy screenplay that I wrote was Animal House and I always thought I could and should be a director but no one was about to give me that opportunity on Animal House.

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves.

Every season is a journey. Every journey is a lifetime.

Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?