Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

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.

Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain.

The world nowadays is so perverted. Some people think I'm insane only because they don't understand my point of view.

Live today as if eternity with Christ will begin today.

I feel like so often I'm just, like, running around and eating in the car, which is, like, not good, or eating as I'm walking down the street.

The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.

I really love Steve Martin and all the stuff he did in the '70s. I think it's really great.

I love The West Wing for many reasons. The show has been a fantasy. But we have offered a parallel universe to reality.

Alesi is in second place, and Hill is in second place.

It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people... This is a people's task.

Confirmation strengthens us to defend the faith and to spread the Gospel courageously