The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.

The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it.

Women complain about PMS, but I think of it as the only time of the month when I can be myself.

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears makes one you can ride on.

Excuse the mess but we live here.

As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then hey, I've done my job.

Half the world's starving; the other half is trying to lose weight.

Women should try to increase their size rather than decrease it, because I believe the bigger we are, the more space we'll take up, and the more we'll have to be reckoned with.

I call myself a 'domestic goddess.

Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?

I quit smoking. I feel better. I smell better. And it's safer to drink out of old beer cans laying around the house.

...[M]en are put in a sort of guard-post, from which one must not release one's self or run away...

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

Love is the weapon of the wise.

I think patience is a skill and I wish I had it.

Forgiveness is always free. But that doesn't mean that confession is always easy. Sometimes it is hard. Incredibly hard. It is painful to admit our sins and entrust ourselves to God's care.

I have no artistic sensibilities. I wish I did. It is probably really cool. I have work habits and work ethic. For me, all the things I do are jobs.

Success is something you attract, by becoming an attractive person.

I would hope that the publicity around the Higgs boson would increase the public awareness of physics and cosmology.

You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.

An estimated value is a precarious measure of justice, compared with the specific thing.