Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

For every blissful moment you must an anguish meet.

Why do lazy, minimum effort employees always seem to find places where they feel "underappreciated"?

He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.

Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.

I don't want them to be told to remember me.

I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

Don't ever tell anyone where you bought something. If you get a complement say, "Thank you. I got it in Europe.

It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.

Frequently, only silence can express my prayer.