I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Daisaku Ikeda

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

Dee Dee Myers

I got my own back.

Maya Angelou

If you have autism in the family history, you still vaccinate. Delay it a bit, space them out.

Temple Grandin

As soon as I became old enough to make my dreams my reality, I became a firm believer that the subconscious and the world outside of our flesh and blood is essentially the truth.

Melissa Auf der Maur

Fear is a great inventor.

Proverb

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

Mindy Kaling

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.

Aristotle

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

John Updike

Don't be pushed by your problems. Be led by your dreams.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

Charles Caleb Colton

Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench