There are more whooping cranes in the United States of America than there are women in Congress.

Sit a man on his ass with nothing to do but eat and the first thing that goes is his mind. It never fails.

I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

[T]here is one and only one way to possess that in which we are defective, therefore that which we need, therefore that which we want. Become it.

How withered away one can be from a life of unremitting toil.

....thinking you are attacking society when you condemn or ravage the hypothetical Nice Girl Next Door is the exact equivalent of thinking that stealing from the local supermarket makes you a Communist.