those who despair of life are not long for it.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Never dance in a puddle when there's a hole in your shoe (it's always best to take your shoes off first).

Everything at the moment, my dear, no doubt seems disgusting. I know the mood too well. But being in that mood, Ross, is like being out in the frost. If we do not keep on the move we shall perish.

You can survive without artistry, but you cannot live without artistry.

I love Ralph Lauren. As I travel so much, I prefer to shop online.

I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

I know one thing. If a NASCAR driver ever got on the court with me, they wouldn't be able to keep up. That would be like me driving a bus in a NASCAR race.

For you see, each day I love you more. Today more than yesterday and less than tomorrow.

So far as I am concerned I have no doctrinaire belief in free speech. In the interest of the war it is necessary to sacrifice some of it.

We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.