Parenting meant that whether or not your children understood you, your obligation was to understand them.

I don't want to be someone that you're settling for. I don't want to be someone that anyone settles for. Marriage is hard enough without bringing such low expectations into it, isn't it?

[Wellesley College] is about as meaningful to the educational process in America as a perfume factory is to the national economy.

Women are being considered as candidates for vice-president of the United States because it is the worst job in America. It's amazing that men will take it. A job with real power is first lady. I'd be willing to run for that. As far as the men who are running for president are concerned, they aren't even people I would date.

Whenever someone says the words 'Our friendship is more important than this,' watch out, because it almost never is.

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

People have only one way to be.