What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

The external rest comes unexpected.

I went to Performing Arts because that was the only school that would accept me. My scholastic level was not very high.

Aristotle and many others say men have more teeth than women; it is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

There is no victory at bargain basement prices.

We are always searching for God afar off, when all the while He is nearer to us than our own soul.

Stars are like animals in the wild. We may see the very young but never their actual birth, which is a veiled and secret event.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Why fly like a hen when you can soar like an eagle?

So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

I am certain, from experience, of the immense advantage of strict account-keeping in early life. It is just like learning the grammar then, which when once learned need not be referred to afterwards.