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

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.

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.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride. They have yielded to the perennial temptation.

There will always be rough days and easy ones. Like a ship, we must sail through both.

The family that reads together grows together!

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

Prayer begins at the edge of emptiness.

I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself.

I'm not a politician; I'm lucky to be a filmmaker and to be able to express myself through the films I make.

You must perfect every fundamental of your business if you expect it to perform well.

There's something about guitars, they're just so big, you know what I mean? You're just like, 'Ugh!' It just seems so overwhelming. And the ukulele is, like, the opposite of overwhelming.