The hand that rocks the cradle should also rock the boat.

The pedestal is immobilizing and subtly insulting whether or not some women yet realize it. We must move up from the pedestal.

I do not refer to myself as a 'housewife' for the reason that I did not marry a house.

I was as unburdened as a piece of dandelion fluff, and he was the wind that stirred me about the world.

If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.

Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week.

An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

An unproductive truth is none. But there are products which cannot be weighed even in patent scales, nor brought to market.

First make peace inside yourself.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

We need to make it safe to cycle across London. Why not pedestrianise parts of London like Oxford Street and Parliament Square? I intend to plant 200 million trees across London in my term as mayor.