“The most out-there thing Im saying is, Dont have babies. Dont get married and have kids. Have a larger life than that.”

“The thing women have yet to learn is nobody gives you power. You just take it. ”

“Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.”

“I figure when my husband comes home from work, if the kids are still alive, then I've done my job.”

“To expect life to treat you good is foolish as hoping a bull won't hit you because you are a vegetarian.”

“I know that I pay 48 percent of my income to taxes. You know, I wouldn't mind so much if it wasn't going just to export war. If it was actually going to help the people of the United States, I woul...”

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want the men wind up suckered into things.”

“Scriptures are as helping problem. Scriptures only give directions. Scriptures are like a thermometer. Can you grind a thermometer and give it as medicine?”

“Youll get lost and then youll find it.”

“Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come.”

“I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape an...”

“There are several other sources of enjoyment in a long voyage, which are of a more reasonable nature. The map of the world ceases to be a blank; it becomes a picture full of the most varied and ani...”

“There are many things that make a man irritable when he arrives home from work in the evening and a sensible wife will usually notice the storm-signals and will leave him alone until he simmers down.”

“Oblivion, she thought. That was the world she lived in. It was what they should name some countries, towns, and places.”

“A lot of men wouldn't like being called a romantic. It's not macho enough.'Quite often men are fools.”