women used to be elected only when their husbands died and they became widows. The men found this was too hard on them. That's why they've become feminists.

I have always employed humor, and I think it's absolutely crucial that we do because, among other things, humor is the only free emotion.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

I no longer believe the conservative message that children are naturally selfish and destructive creatures who need civilizing by hierarchies or painful controls. On the contrary, I believe that hierarchy and painful controls create destructive people. And I no longer believe the liberal message that children are blank slates on which society can write anything. On the contrary, I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

There is no such thing as Superwoman. You cant have everything if you do everything.

When you say something in a wrong group - it will never be right, so you can not say anything wrong, when you don't belong to a group.

Reporters immediately push their interviewees into the most extreme version by saying in a shocked tone, 'Well, are you saying that ..." They're trying to make people be as hostile and opposed to each other as possible because they think only conflict is news.