Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

Who set Rome on fire? The man we must admire. For killing his wife, and taking the life of mother and brother and so many others, while plucking his damnable lyre.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.

Silence is a protective coating over pain.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

You didn't realize emotion could be a weapon? Have you not read the poetry of Jewel?

We found ourselves veiled and separated from our friends.

Life - and I don't suppose I'm the first to make this comparison - is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

Nature reserves some of her choice rewards for days when her mood may appear to be somber.

I feel good about the decisions that I made and I'm happy. You know, I'm really happy.

I told somebody in Europe I was 43. I never tell my true age. It's ridiculous that people ask. The press doesn't deserve anything but lies.