We're not meant to be parents when we're 50.

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.

Understand that all motivation is internal, or intrinsic.

Everyone hasn't got the power to free oneself and go away to another place or country... No one is capable of freeing oneself from society.

They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities.

Innovation: Imagine the future and fill in the gaps.

There are moments we return to, now and always. Family is like water - it has a memory of what it once filled, always trying to get back to the original stream.

I'd much rather wear out than rust out.

It was a great time to be making music because everything else was changing.

The parts for women, you're either like the quietly suffering wife or the wild girl.

When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.

I was horribly bookish, to the point of coming right out and saying it, which I knew was not socially acceptable.