One way to measure a particular doctor's openness and attitude toward women in general is simply to ask about the doctor's opinion of midwifery.

Ina May Gaskin is the most important person in maternity care in North America, bar none.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger" - Billy Connolly

Hard work and determination-that is what will get you closer towards accomplishing your goal.

I felt as though a large knot of flames had been lit in my stomach, making me feel nauseous and excited all at once

I work closely with Hispanic leadership.

On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art.

The problem with Bush is that yes, he's religious in a fundamentalist sort of way, they read the Old Testament as a sort of charter for the chosen people to do what they like.

Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

Coming out, all the way out, is offered more and more as the political solution to our oppression.

I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.