Take this marriage thing seriously - it has to last all the way to the divorce.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

The theory of karma exists not to bring fear to your heart but to ensure you do not lose hope and give up at the first obstacle that hits your path.

I could be irksome when I put my left ventricle into it.

It is what the Taoists say: The way to do is to be.

As travel pushes me forward, memory keeps dragging me backward.

I look upon paradoxes as the impotent efforts of men who, not having capacity to draw attention and celebrity from good sense, fly to eccentricities to make themselves noted.

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

Beware the person who is on a hot streak.

I don't think that any family has a function. I just think that a family is. It just exists.

I don't want children cursing. I'm very strict on my nieces and my little brother. They have to listen to clean versions of music. Even my music.

The first time I met Patti Smith was in a laundromat. We knew some of the same people, including Richard Hell.