When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In fact, if you need laws ... to protect your faith, maybe your faith is weak.

While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.

Can currently existing religion be disentangled from the misogyny of its texts, its traditions, and its practices? ... a resounding NO: misogyny not only pervades the major faiths, it's baked in.

Misogyny runs deeper than religion.

We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.

When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.

One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.

In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.

... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.

Every inch of progress is won in struggle.

We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.

Where you are today and where you want to be lies a gap. That gap is the price you have to pay to get to the top.

Does life teach us anything more, I wondered, than not to cry over all there is to cry about?

I have found by experience that they who have spent all their lives in cities, improve their talents but impair their virtues; and strengthen their minds but weaken their morals.

With the year off, I think most guys were excited to get going, but coming to Ottawa, a new place, made me even more excited.

Always have your players go and pick-up the guy who draws the charge.

I'm a great believer in all forms of energy, but we're putting a lot of people out of work. Our energy policies are a disaster.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

In Wisconsin, We're at the forefront of research that might one day bring cures for diseases like Parkinsons and Alzheimers, and we must seize its great potential.

Also, I sort of let my appearance go, to the point where I was maybe ten to seventy pounds overweight.

When faced without a challenge, make one