The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

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.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Men, I still think, ought to be weighed, not counted. Their worth ought to be the final estimate of their value.

Even if false gold makes a man happy:At the mint it will be identified.

My daughter got me a 'World's Best Dad' mug. So we know she's sarcastic.

O, sir, doubt not that Angling is an art; is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly?

When I'm drawing a picture, I feel...quiet inside.

He stared at his hot chocolate like it held the secret to the universe.

The meaningful question is never what we did yesterday, but what we have learned from it and are doing today.

Underground hip-hop is, like, one of my foundations, I would say a cornerstone of my foundation of my musical tastes.

I'm a bad pessimist. I don't think about how successful any record I've ever done is going to do before it came out.

people want you to be happy, don't keep serving them your pain