Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

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.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

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.

People who take you for granted would be mad at those who regard you as something.

Sometimes, some of you speak about god, and I mistake him for an abusive lover you're trying to escape.

The basic unit of any society is the home. When the home begins to break, the society is on the way to disintegration.

And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with.

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

I always wanted to sing, as a child.

The No. 1 issue in the Hispanic American community is 'How do I leave my children better off than myself?

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.