Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking.

The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Sisterhood is a powerful metaphor; it ought not become a synonym for groupthink.

Stories told around the water-cooler as well as statistics confirm that a man's competence is more likely to be presupposed, a woman's questioned.

I think it's healthy to say that the American people now have direct access and that we have sufficient confidence as people in our own ability to judge, to make intelligent decisions.

Increasingly, campaigns have become narcotics that blur our awareness of problems long enough to elect the lawmakers who must deal with them.

Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

It was much easier to explain the veil than to answer questions about the wounds.

My girlfriend is despicable. I just found out she flirted with my brother, during my mom's funeral, while I was asleep.

Perfume is the indispensable complement to the personality of women, the finishing touch on a dress.

Falsehood is never in words; it is in things.

I don't think I've ever had more fun doing anything in my life than trading verses with Daryl Hall on 'Private Eyes.' That's as fun as it gets.

Avoid internalizing society's sexism, racism, ageism - pick an ism, any ism.

I didn't become a writer to write about me.

With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.