The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.

Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.

I am done looking for love where it doesn’t exist. I am done coughing up dust in attempts to drink from dry wells.

You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met.

I became a feminist upon the realization that, whether physical, mental, or emotional, everything involved in obtaining love and approval from men required some form of self-mutilation.

It is not your job to convince men to like you.

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Children are often like hostages under the care of authority, with spankings and groundings nudging them like guns pointed at their skulls, threatening to shoot if the wrong words are uttered.

Southerners have mastered picking, choosing, and rationalizing religious texts to fit their social agenda better than their own mother’s fried chicken recipe.

Seasoned digital daters are like lions who have had their prey killed, butchered, and served to them on a tray in their artificial habitat for so long that they’ve forgotten how to hunt.

To not use a talent to the best of your ability is to stifle the thing that makes you most special. It is like plucking the wings off a butterfly.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Kids are natural scientists.

I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.

I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.

Doctor says to a man, "You're pregnant!" The man says, "How does a man get pregnant?" The doctor says, "The usual way - a little wine, a little dinner...."

A lot of people see electronic music as a flavor of the week, but it can be more than that - has to be more than that.

Patience is eternal genius

When Christ came into my life, I came about like a well-handled ship.

Socialize the individual's surplus and you socialize his spirit and creativeness.