My goal is to be accused of being strident.

Feminism's agenda is basic: It asks that women not be forced to 'choose' between public justice and private happiness.

The system of heroism depends on women to be weak so men can be strong.

In place of equal respect, the nation offered women the Miss America beauty pageant, established in 1920-the same year women won the vote.

As it turns out, social scientists have established only one fact about single women's mental health: employment improves it.

The women's movement. . . has proved women's own worst enemy.

The culture used to move relatively slowly, so you could take aim. Now it moves so fast, and is so fluffy and meaningless, you feel like an idiot even complaining about it.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Gender is really varied and complicated and sort of infinitely individualistic.

For some high-profile men in trouble, women, especially feminist women, became the all-purpose scapegoats-charged with crimes that often descended into the absurd.

Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations.

Capote I truly loathed. The way you might loathe an animal. A filthy animal that has found its way into the house.

Those stories were the sound track of my summer with you.

You don't need to get anywhere or be anything more than the beautiful soul that you already are.

In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.

And at some point I would like to talk my publisher into doing an anthology of my poetry alongside some teen readers poetry. It would be fun, and really wonderful to get their stuff out there.

In Shakespeare's day it was women who were being burned at the stake as witches... not men. The men were thought of as alchemists. But women doing the same thing would be a witch and would be burned.

She needed him to be him. Even if he could not be hers.

Each and every living being in nature is part of God's body.

Military folk," Neal said with exaggerated patience, shaking his head. "The only way you know to solve problems is by beating them with a stick.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.