Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.

It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

More women are becoming the men they wanted to marry, but too few men are becoming the women they wanted to marry. That leaves most women with two jobs, one outside the home and one in it.

Now, we've made the revolutionary discovery that children have two parents. A decade ago even the kindly Dr. Spock held mothers solely responsible for children.