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.

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.

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

Human beings like variety, and they also like partnership . . . these are scientific values we can point to.

No one made sense of the love they shared. They didn't get the hang of it either. But together, the clocks of winter stopped.. And autumn's fallen leaves turned, swiftly, scarlet.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

The magic of love is that it becomes our memory which we never can forget.

When I'm gone, you'll be sitting in a cafe and say, "Do you remember Agnes?"

Even the elders can give a number of helpful hints.

I never want to be preachy in my music, just share thoughts, things I have learned.

Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.

Write what you love and love what you write.

I feel like if I ever got into some sort of rumble on the street, I will actually be able to defend myself.

Maybe the best hasn’t happened yet.