In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.

We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

I think we should all call ourselves feminists.

If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

Pop culture is like our subconscious.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

As we get used to women in power, we are likely to discover that they behave much like powerful men - vain, entitled, always looking for more.

The launch of a space shuttle can still make you weep with amazement and wonder, if you happen to be watching it.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Men need marriage more than women do. In fact, they need it to survive.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Let go, let go, let go, Just let it go, Let the tears come out, Stop fighting the tears back, Stop wearing different masks, Let yourself be seen, Let yourself be the real you,

It's hard to imagine which is worse, living with fear, or living without it in a fantasyland were consequences don't exist.

Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference.

In all change, well looked into, the germinal good out-veils the apparent ill.

The production of children, the nurture of those born, and the daily life of men, of these matters woman is visibly the cause.

The new critique you're gonna start hearing about James Franco, is 'He's spreading himself too thin.'

I thought the Secret Service would protect me from the press, but they were at my house to protect me from assassins with guns, not with assassins with pencils.

I think hell is something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.

I never want to draw attention to myself, but that's all I do.