Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

To her, not packing our lunches every day or joining the PTA is a feminist rallying cry.

One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election.

If the West believed in something, it would prevail overnight. The problem is you can't beat bad faith with no faith.

Weep for me. Bear my pain. Take my come. For I can give you nothing else.

Sometimes I can't see myself when I'm with you. I can only just see you.

One day in God's grace is equivalent to a thousand days of striving by your own efforts.

The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say

Our lives laid down in war and peace may not Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight. And that they may be is the only prayer Worth praying. May my sacrifice Be found acceptable in Heaven's sight.

I think one thing that always attracted me to movies was the personalities. I went to movies not because the stories necessarily appealed to me, but because of the people in them.