The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.
We need a kind of feminism that aims not just to assimilate into the institutions that men have created over the centuries, but to infiltrate and subvert them.
To be homeless in America is to live like a fugitive. The destitute are our own native-born "illegals. "
Jesus: a wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist.
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your 'job. ' Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
The question is why one should be so inwardly preoccupied at all. Why not reach out to others in love and solidarity or peer into the natural world for some glimmer of understanding? Why retreat into anxious introspection when, as Emerson might have said, there is a vast world outside to explore? Why spend so much time working on oneself when there is so much real work to be done?
we are reaching the point, if we have not passed it already, where the largest public housing program in America will be our penitentiary system.
The A-bomb is dynamite.
Play more than one sport in high school. If you play, say, football and basketball, you can learn to be physical and you can take those physical aspects of both sports and become better in both sports. Basketball players use some of the same skills football players do and vice versa.
Fortune reveres the brave, and overwhelms the cowardly.
To every soul you encounter, be a mirror, which reflects only their beauty.