The last thing a man becomes progressive about is the activities of his own wife.

It is all right for the lion and the lamb to lie down together if they are both asleep, but if one of them begins to get active, it is dangerous.

A good deal of tyranny goes by the name of protection.

The average man has a carefully cultivated ignorance about household matters - from what to do with the crumbs to the grocer's telephone number - a sort of cheerful inefficiency which protects him.

I am not interested in women just because they're women. I am interested, however, in seeing that they are no longer classed with children and minors.

If the feminist program goes to pieces on the arrival of the first baby, it's false and useless.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.

Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitation like having everybody admit that it is fundamentally right.

I would not have a woman go to Congress merely because she is a woman.

Life is a big battle for the complete feminist.

[S]exual intercourse remains a means or the means of psychologically making a woman inferior.

Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.

We musicians play in Time and with Time, but sometimes it is Time that plays with us. One day, unpredictably, the evolution of culture makes real an oeuvre which has lain in obscurity.

Knowledge of the Bible never comes by intuition. It can only be obtained by diligent, regular, daily, attentive reading.

The first time I was homeless was when I went to Atlanta. I was in a homeless shelter, then when I got a job I used to miss the curfew for the shelter. So I ended up sleeping outside in the streets.

In the mid-nineties, diversity in the fashion/beauty business was hard to come by.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

I'm running out of places I can run, looking for a place in the sun.