“We choose to be writers because we don’t want to talk.”

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

Marriage works best for men than women. The two happiest groups are married men and unmarried women.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

Housewives are dependent creatures who are still children, parasites.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

I believe a unique core self is born into every human being; the result of millennia of environment and heredity combined in an unpredictable way that could never happen before or again.

A movement is only composed of people moving. To feel its warmth and motion around us is the end as well as the means.

[on sexual politics] The Golden Rule works for men as written, but for women it should go the other way around. We need to do unto ourselves as we do unto others.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

Show me something that is not transformed by the other half of the human race.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us

If what’s inside your dreams wasn’t already real inside you, you couldn’t even dream it.

I don’t like writing. I like having written.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

A good friendship is a conversation that never ends.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

Choosing the car you drive is like choosing your wardrobe, maybe even more important.

When you choose to be an actor, you are going against the odds.

In life one cannot eat his cake and have it, too; he must make his choice and then do the best he can to be content to go the way his judgment leads.

Always choose love- you may not be loved in return – love may still find you.

First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don’t come, I choose the ones that pay the rent.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn’t be that, I’d want to be a superhero.

Being male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of age. But being a Gentleman is a matter of choice.