In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.

If supporters of equality for women want to vote for the best candidate, they must look to a person regardless of gender and must disregard the gender of political opponents.

Most of us believe that women can do what men do. The challenge is to convince employers, legislators, mothers, that men can do what women do.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist -- Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

Education, doing homework, is the way to lift up girls. Around the world, where girls are educated, the economy and the standard of living rise.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.

During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

Most of the well-known American feminists of the 19th century did not come out against the institution of marriage.

The battle we are fighting is not against a particular group. It is against human nature - or at least what it has become.

Is that what love is all about? Needing them to come back to you when they're away? To come home and keep you safe?

The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks.

- Be thou not technical with me, /Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

They X-rayed my head and found nothing.

Smile, it's free therapy.

I never like to be lied to by a girlfriend or agent, and certainly not the president of the United States.

I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.

I'd like to play live, but the thing I do now with my synthesizers, almost everything is vocoder-driven.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.