Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

I dared to dream.......I dared to believe the dream.....I dared to live the dream. I am glad it became real.

You two want to get a room?" Dean asked."We already have one, " Lucy answered.

It's more this instinct to get in trouble, and then get myself out of trouble. That's what painting is for me.

I don't really concentrate on Urban AC or whatever. I don't concentrate on genres or how people section off songs for radio.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Women understand that men must often be kept from soiling themselves with the dirty little details of life in order to accomplish the big shinny jobs unimpeded.

When I watch kids play basketball, they don't know how to think the game. They know what it should look like, but they don't know why.

Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

Stop looking for the perfect church. It does not exist. Even if it did exist, the moment we joined it, it would no longer be perfect!

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.