...she'll cry, and if she does, I probably will, and then she'll have found a way in, and I will not let her pierce my walls in a Trojan horse of sympathy.

I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing

Fate already warned us to pack it in. We just didn’t hear it in time.

...you realize that you don't understand yourself any better than you understand anyone else.

If at first you don't succeed, lower you expectations

There's always a last time. If you could remember every last time, you'd never stop grieving.

Keep your head high and your skirt down.

Anyone who takes the time to be kind is beaut

the silence people, hear everything.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Young people ask me for advice, and I tell them to do what I didn't do. Get some training. I took jobs that required talents I didn't have.

Overall, women are a lot more fun to work with than a bunch of men.

And one thing we want during this war on terror is for people to feel like their life's moving on, that they're able to make a living and send their kids to college and put more money on the table.

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it.

If the sociologist has a role, it is probably more to furnish weapons than to give lessons.

I used to get upset by people not understanding me, but I’ve made a career out of it now.