But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.
At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
Always get married in the morning. That way if it doesn't work out, you haven't wasted the whole day.
When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.
I was inspired to become a writer by horror movies and science fiction.
I was born in 1950 and watched science fiction and horror movies on TV and was always really fascinated by them.
I don't know what I'm proudest of. The fact that my kids still talk to me.
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.
Socialism is the ideal state, but it can never be achieved while man is so selfish.
Surely the freedom of women must mean more to us than the freedom of pimps.
You should not have taken advantage of my sensibility to steal into my affections without my consent.
The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.
Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.
all communities divide themselves into the few and the many. the first are the rich and well-born, the other the mass of the people
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of degree.
I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.