That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

A finished person is a boring person.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

After all those years as a woman hearing 'not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,' almost overnight I woke up one morning and thought, 'I'm enough.'

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

There is a lot of talk now about metal detectors and gun control. Both are good things. But they are no more a solution than forks and spoons are a solution to world hunger.

Look back, to slavery, to suffrage, to integration and one thing is clear. Fashions in bigotry come and go. The right thing lasts.

You are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life ... Your entire life ... Not just the life of your mind, but the life of your heart. Not just your bank account, but your soul.

America is a country that seems forever to be toddler or teenager, at those two stages of human development characterized by conflict between autonomy and security.

There is a meaning of life but I've been sworn to secrecy.

Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

Dare to be the adults we want our children to be.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

Until you are somewhat comfortable and confident and embrace who you are, as a person, you can't possibly love somebody else because you don't like yourself that much.

I liked a lot of the scenes I did with Ryan Phillippe.

All the rest of the world uses the word electricity. They've borrowed the word from English. But we Chinese have our own word for it!

Raising a child is the only relationship you have where if you do it right, it will end in separation.

The organizations of the future are filled with smart, fast, flexible people on a mission