The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

A day should be your controlling and managing factor

Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring why committees are so ineffective. Then we’ll stand-back and watch it argue and self-destruct.

It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.

I always tell people I romanticize about doing something simple, like doing radio in northern California.

I'm always one who will lash out at anyone hurts my friends, viciously, kind of. I'm very protective of the people I love.

Show me the woman, however loyal, who does not seek to rouse desire.

I feel really lucky, although I hate that word - 'lucky'.

Moses, who said to the Israelites, Stop calling me Charlton! Never got a dinner!

Don't live life in the past lane.

Do not merely think that you are great; think that you are great now. Do not think that you will begin to act in a great way at some future time; begin now.