Women don’t try to use me.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

All the women in my life have been librarians, English teachers and book sellers.

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

I don’t want to be fake. I’m just being me. And I have the power to break stereotypes and whatever useless rules that society puts on us.

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.

For years my wedding ring has done its job. It has led me not into temptation. It has reminded my husband numerous times at parties that it’s time to go home. It has been a source of relief to a dinner companion. It has been a status symbol in the maternity ward.

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

I think that you can love people without it being the great love.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

The chain of wedlock is so heavy that it takes two to carry it – and sometimes three.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

I’m sick of the tabloids‘ saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don’t like it.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You don’t sign up for a divorce when you get married. It’s very painful. But it’s taught me a great deal about myself.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and… the state in which you will find solid happiness.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

We all have possibilities we don’t know about. We can do things we don’t even dream we can do.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you’re going to bump into somebody that makes you go, ‚Hmm, I don’t mind seeing this person every day.‘

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

All of the people in my life whom I consider to be close friends or colleagues are good thinkers.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Nobody is my boss.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don’t give up the fight.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

Don’t ever criticize yourself. Don’t go around all day long thinking, ‚I’m unattractive, I’m slow, I’m not as smart as my brother.‘ God wasn’t having a bad day when he made you… If you don’t love yourself in the right way, you can’t love your neighbour. You can’t be as good as you are supposed to be.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

If we help an educated man’s daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not about education but about war? – not how she can learn, but how she can fight in order that she might win the same advantages as her brothers?

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Friend, there’s no greater investment in life than in being a people builder. Relationships are more important than our accomplishments.

Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status.

If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

And above all things, never think that you’re not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

I’ve known and continue to know every one of these major world leaders by their first names, and I have access to them.

Never contract friendship with a man that is not better than thyself.

I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it’s my mind.

Be the hunter, not the hunted.

I was never a boy magnet at school. There was always the girl all the guys liked and wanted to date, but it was never me.

What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Not everyone loves me, but I have to be okay no matter what they think about me.