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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.

What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat?

More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.

There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

Getting to know someone else involves curiosity about where they have come from, who they are.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

I think the supernatural is a catch-all for everything we don't understand about the vast other parts of life that we cannot perceive.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

There are less than 1 per cent of anorexic girls, but there more than 30 per cent of girls in France - I don't know about England - that are much, much overweight. And it is much more dangerous and very bad for the health.

Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do.

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

You have to be careful about how much you reveal to people that look up to you so much.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

I have so much chaos in my life, it's become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they're wrong.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.

I guess what I learned the most was to feel lucky with what I have been able to accomplish and what I have and to feel humble about the people I have been able to work with.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

Ultimately, I'm about liberty and I think you have to defend it.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It's about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.

This war is not about slavery.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.