Once you get away from wanting to get paid, you can actually say some true things.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

Perception and reality are soul mates! They always support each other and even like to hide behind each other.

Some want to be writers when life permits it. There is no part-time in being a writer. It’s an all-in way of living your life through words and feelings scratched out with a pen.

There is such beauty in the fight to live. We must all find the courage to go on.

It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.

Part of me believes that love is more valuable when you have to work for it.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

In New Zealand I think we often take ourselves too seriously, and being able to laugh at yourself is necessary in life without being too precious.

The universe is not in a steady state; there's an ongoing creative principle in nature, which is driving things onwards.

Patti [Smith] was my experiment, to be honest. And the film is what we got out of it. At the end of the day, I learned a lot about how to make a film.

It ain't the despair that gets you, it's the hope.