A lot of my work goes to the center of where we belong--if there is any root to life -because nowadays the family is broken up, and people don't live in the same place for very long.

Whether for good or evil, it is sadly inevitable that all political leadership requires the artifices of theatrical illusion. In the politics of a democracy, the shortest distance between two points is often a crooked line.

I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.

Oh,Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer.

What work you do! It's strange work for a Christian girl to hang old women!

Life, woman, life is God's most precious gift; no principle, however glorious, may justify the taking of it.

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.