The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

Revolution is the festival of the oppressed.

Man is jealous because of his amour propre; woman is jealous because of her lack of it.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Energy is the power that drives every human being. It is not lost by exertion but maintained by it, for it is a faculty of the psyche.

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

Yo Mama’s so ugly, her Mama had to tie a steak around her neck to get the dogs to play with her.

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

I would encourage every American to walk as often as possible. It's more than healthy; it's fun.

I made these Sierra trips, carrying only a sackful of bread with a little tea and sugar, and was thus independent and free.

As soon as you publish a book and the reader reads it, they're making an extension of your brain with their brain.

Like most human behavior, violence has meaning: it only seems 'senseless' or 'meaningless' to the extent we are unable-or unwilling-to decode it.

When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope.

Our government conceived in freedom and purchased with blood can be preserved only by constant vigilance.