Illiteracy is a huge problem in America. One in three adults in our country is illiterate.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people

My mouth is not talking, my fingers are!

I’ve never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

Never believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition.

The brevity of human life gives a melancholy to the profession of the architect.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The desire of glory is the last infirmity cast off even by the wise.

It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.