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

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.

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

The focus of the entrepreneur must always be on exchanging products or services for money, and anything that distracts from that like actually running a business, should be avoided where possible.

Leaders can choose to grow and change, but generally the most powerful predictor of future performance is past behavior. Evaluate them realistically.

Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.

Sometimes I wish that I hadn't learned how to crochet," I say, and Alice laughs. Obviously she thinks I'm joking, which is maybe for the best.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

I’ve licked stamps who were more excited than you by that kiss.

All religions remind us that actions have consequences for which guilt can and must be acknowledged, forgiveness humbly begged, reconciliation sought.

What I do and what I record only work for the moment.

You are my koala bear, and I am your tree.