“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.”

In every century, there are a handful of writers who help the human race to evolve. Andrea is one of them.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after 30-and 40, and 50, and 60, and 77! Believe me, life is one long surprise.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Invention is the most important product of man’s creative brain. The ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of human nature to human needs.

I’m still exploring in a lot of ways. I don’t know myself completely.

In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that.

It’s always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements.

You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

Never ever compete on prices, instead compete on services and innovation.

Obscurity and a competence – that is the life that is best worth living.