I always say that bad women are fewer than men, but when you get one, they're fascinating because they're so rotten.
What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.
It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow in romantic comedies where both the romance and the comedy are artificial sweeteners.
The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
I really like Septimus Heap. he is my favorite guy in the story. I should make you all read it.
In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
If every woman who's had an abortion took tomorrow off in protest, America would grind to a halt. And that would be symbolic: because women grind to a halt if they are not in control of their fertility.
People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.
While women were powerfully liberated both externally as well as internally by the feminism of the 1970s, we made some serious mistakes as well.
Abraham Lincoln went through 12 generals before he got Ulysses S. Grant. He had never done a Civil War before.
My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented & uniquely equipped to interpret the complex symbolism of the world but they are certai...
You know Jace Lightwood?" said Emma. "I-- What?" "He's famous," Emma said with obvious amazement. He's the best Shadowhunter. The best.
Clary curled up on the ground seeing in front of her not the shell of a destroyed town but the eyes of the brother and the sister that she would never have.
Every time I think I'm missing a piece of me, you give it back.
