If we don't place the straitjacket of gender roles on young children, we give them space to reach their full potential.

We have a world full of women who are unable to exhale fully because they have for so long been conditioned to fold themselves into shapes to make themselves likeable.

Because when there is true equality, resentment does not exist.

That a woman claims not to be feminist does not diminish the necessity of feminism. If anything, it makes us see the extent of the problem, the successful reach of patriarchy.

There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.

Teach her to question men who can have empathy for women only if they see them as relational rather than as individual equal humans.

Make dressing a question of taste and attractiveness instead of a question of morality.

Be a full person. Motherhood is a glorious gift, but do not define yourself solely by motherhood. Be a full person. Your child will benefit from that.

A father is as much a verb as a mother.

And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?

With time we will all stop fighting pimples and start fighting wrinkles.

A monarch should be ever intent on conquest, lest his neighbours rise in arms against him.

Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!

The Bible will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the Bible.

I consume an enormous number of books, but they're always on a particular subject because I'm obsessive.

I can't choose the most meaningful song that I've written. That would be like choosing one child over another. But first borns are always special.

People call me for the ballads. Apparently that's where I've been pigeonholed. But it's really interesting and really fun. It's my favourite part of the job, writing.

You're beautiful in your wrath.

The way to get on in the world is to be neither more nor less wise, neither better nor worse than your neighbours.