all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!

There are no hopeless situations; there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.

Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.

Advertising has done more to cause the social unrest of the 20th century than any other single factor.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.

Watergate is the great liberal illusion that you can have public virtue without private morality.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes'; They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.'

The main thing is to get what little happiness there is out of life in this wartorn world because ‘these are the good old days’ now.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Explanations can’t explain love--only deep perception can do that.

grace is a small white butterfly, and life is a semi trailer careening up 101.

There are some things you can't cover up with lipstick and powder.

And we laughed, at the world. They can have their diamonds, And we'll have our pearls

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.

As a teenager I was more of an anarchist, but now I want people to thrive and be harmonious.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

What we're seeing early on is Democrats rallying around Al Gore, Republicans rallying around George Bush and the difficulty of anybody else to get any room in the race.

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.