When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

If you believe in the maternal instinct and fail at mother love, you fail as a woman. It is a controlling idea that holds us in an iron grip.

The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

The older I get...the more of my mother I see in myself.

I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.

To say something nice about themselves, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do.

Separation is not the end of love; it creates love.

When is enough enough? In envy's eyes, enough never is. Somebody else always has something we want.

No man can be really free in bed with a woman who is not.

Mirroring provides social cues through body language and behavior which enable us to develop more empathy and understanding for others.

College campuses have become fascist colonies of anti-American hate speech, hypersensitivity, speech codes, banded words and prohibited scientific inquiry.

I'm pro-life. I'm pro-gun. I'm pro-family. And I'm pro-business.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

When you have short hair, there's just a feeling of here I am. What you see is what you get. And there's a confidence that comes with wearing short hair and I like the way that makes me feel.

I told the students [at Yale] we were going to talk about love - I meant love in the sense of devotions to one's work - and about half the students got really pissed off.

Hitler decided that Mussolini must be freed from the Italian Partisans because Benito was his friend and had acted in good faith.

The idea of a post-religious society is a fantasy, ultimately. Human beings are, by nature, religious in various ways.

In the face of an obstacle which is impossible to overcome, stubbornness is stupid.