It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

The hunger inside us must be fed to be controlled.

For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.

Granted there are only seven stories in the universe. And I agree with that. But give me a great variation of those stories. And literate.

Personal style is accepting who you are.

One thing that's great about the sax is that you can always get better with the horn and improve upon what you did.

Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.

When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

When the uncreative tell the creative what to do, it stops being art.