If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Sometimes life happens.

For every question, there is an answer. Where everybody fails is by asking the wrong question.

To be considerate of othersIs for the way of the wiseThere’s more fighters than loversLeaving us with blackened eyes

Why is it, I wondered, that old people are always so self-centered and excitable? But I just smiled benignly and stood back, comforted by the thought that soon they would be dead.

Every new change forces all the companies in an industry to adapt their strategies to that change.

A clever arrangement of bad eggs will never make a good omelet.

I don't know why a computer game can't be an art form just as a puppet show or an opera is. I'm still interested in computer games as something I would like to work on someday.

Hard work pays off in the future but requires discomfort now. Laziness pays off now but guarantees discomfort in the future.

I didn't attend any of the court proceedings.

There are two kinds of typical days. There's the typical day when I'm writing a novel, and there's the typical day when I'm not.