Keeping people neurotic and depressed and ignorant and self-doubting is oppressive.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

I'm a Mommy's Girl - the strongest influence in my young life was my mom.

Behind every erotic condemnation there's a burning hypocrite.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation

Doing the right thing for someone else was like a tonic for me; it was like some magic ointment that made a wound disappear

Finding people who get enormous pleasure from reading books is a more and more unusual experience, and so writers just so much want to be heard.

I think that you have to do everything you can do to empower girls when they are young, from their education, to their successful independence, to their sexual self-knowledge.

You have to calendar time for yourself even if you have no idea what youre going to do with it.

Many Americans who are not fastened at the temples to a Christian prayer book are offended by politicians who justify their decisions by piously quoting the Old Testament.

There IS more criticism of puritanism, and more distance from Christian morality, than there has been before.

Last days? Don't they know? These are the traits of all days, every day, everywhere.

The geologic column is a bunch of balarky.

She fully expected to see a maniacal killer raising his arms with a plastic bag in his hands to suffocate her

Blaire, tell me what you want me to do. I’ll do whatever it is you need.

Nature, not human activity, rules the climate.

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.