Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

The classics tell us that, in relationships, the one between teacher and student comes second only to the one between parent and child.

It used to happen in villages and towns in China that they would have - I guess you'd call them beauty contests - where all of the women of a particular village or town would be seated behind these screens or curtains with only their feet showing.

While she is lovely, we need to remember that her face is not what distinguishes her. Her beauty is a reflection of the virtue and talent she keeps inside.

Perhaps he was afraid as I was that we'd be caught. Or perhaps he was breathing me in just as I was letting him come into my lungs, my eyes, my heart.

Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.

I think sometimes as an adult, you take people for what they do, and what they are now, instead of the whole picture of their lives.