The people around you are mirrors, I think. You see yourself reflected in their eyes. If the mirror is true, and smooth, you see your true self. That’s how you learn who you are.

When a woman says, ‘I have nothing to wear!’, what she really means is, ‘There’s nothing here for who I’m supposed to be today.

I want a Zero Tolerance policy on All The Patriarchal Bullshit.

And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

But as the years went on, I realised that what I really want to be, all told, is a human. Just a productive, honest, courteously treated human.

Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws.

The problem with battling yourself is that even if you win, you lose.

Feminism has had exactly the same problem that "political correctness" has had: people keep using the phrase without really knowing what it means.

You can always tell when a woman is with the wrong man, because she has so much to say about the fact that nothing's happening.

You stop talking about things when you’ve worked them out. You’re no longer an observer but a participant. You’re too busy for this bullshit.

And the question is always "When are you going to have kids?" Rather than "Do you want to have kids?

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants.

We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work.

The only solution is love.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

The Democrats say that President Bush doesn't have an exit strategy for Iraq. Of course he does. If things don't go well, he exits in November.

When I started out I was definitely more traditional. It was 1988. Everyone was doing the Jerry Seinfeld.

While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a childs imagination.

Some of us just have to work harder to stay in the game.