I have to detach myself completely from aspirations. I hardly ever listen to music anymore because it arouses all of this yearning in me.
The steps must be second nature to me, so that the music seems to be drawing the steps out of me and I don't look as if I'm struggling to fit the steps to the music.
We have the greatest hospitals, doctors, and medical technology in the world - we need to make them accessible to every American.
As a physician, I know many doctors want to utilize new technology, but they find the cost prohibitive.
Much is said about the burdens and responsibilities of married men. Responsibilities indeed there are, if they but felt them: but as to burdens what are they?
By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people.
Oh, if I could put some of my reckless spirit into these discreet cautious lazy men!
I don't like this idea of division: that if you're a clever woman then you've got to be a particular way. Because men don't. Men please themselves.
I'm sure it's why I'm such an odd duck in my feminist generation, because I've always been equally fair to men.
In America and in most of the industrialized world, men are coming to be thought of by feminists in very much the same way that Jews were thought of by early Nazis. The comparison is overwhelmingly scary.
Very seldom do we receive any support for trusting ourselves, listening to our own sense of inner truth, and expressing ourselves in a direct and honest way.
But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.
Every lawsuit results from somebody doing something wrong. If everybody did right, we wouldn't need laws.
I think modern television shows, with their intricate plots, are stimulating our minds. This is one reason IQs have been going up.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
Incumbents are safe, but party majorities are not. This fosters symbolic votes, message politics and little serious legislating in Congress.
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.
It amazes me that parents are allowed to raise kids. There's so much power and often very little accountability.
