Performance for another in no way signals the inferiority of the performer to the one for whom the performance is intended.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

Women's body language speaks eloquently, though silently, of her subordinate status in a hierarchy of gender.

The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

Women punish themselves for the failure to conform.

Men don’t realize that if we’re sleeping with them on the first date, we’re probably not interested in seeing them again either.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

Ree, brunette and sixteen, with milk skin and abrupt green eyes, stood bare-armed in a fluttering yellowed dress, face to the wind, her cheeks reddening as if smacked and smacked again.

I believe that democracy will prevail, so long as the United States stays with these young democracies to help them.

To his orchestra Stop da music, stop da music! You're supposed to follow da music, not chase it all over da place.

Hang on to your eccentricities, because they will give you a style.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

Americans believe with all their heart, the vast majority of them, and the vast majority of Floridians, that the United States of America is simply the single greatest nation in all of human history.

Do your kind even know what love is? Can you feel anything at all, or is it just... programmed?

Inner reality is certainly more important than the outer reality.