maturity ... is letting things happen.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

Normal is absolutely my least favorite word.

Nostalgia is a dangerous emotion, both because it is powerless to act in the real world, and because it glides so easily into hatred and resentment against those who have taken our Eden from us.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Most full lives are filled with empty gestures.

Some are born great some achieve greatness and some hire public relations officers.

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

In saying my prayers, I discovered the voice of an innermost self, the raw nerve of my identity.

I know I'm 25 now, but there's still that little lad inside me who likes his dad there to see him.

The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

God brings people into our lives precisely when we need them.

There is in us all that line that prevents us from fully understanding those who are different.

This Court is forever adding new stories to the temples of constitutional law, and the temples have a way of collapsing when one story too many is added.