People are going to make comparisons and they can do that but I'm definitely not going to compare myself to Derek Jeter.
Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.
In American fertility clinics, 75 percent of couples are requesting girls and not boys.
Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
Marriages are failing, and mothers are raising their children alone. Many women would rather remain alone than marry a man who can't contribute anything to the family's income.
I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. . . . The time has come to consider how we might bring about a separation, as complete as possible, between Science and Government in all countries. I call this the disestablishment of science, in the same sense in which the churches have been disestablished and have become independent of the state.
There are many days when all the awful things that happen make you sick at heart, when the path before you is so steep you can’t bear to look. Not even love can rescue a person from that. Still, enveloped in the twilight coming from the west, there she was, watering the plants with her slender, graceful hands, in the midst of a light so sweet it seemed to form a rainbow in the transparent water she poured.
If he was lost for a moment, he would dive straight back into its honey.
I certainly treasure the memory and indeed the picture, which still hangs in my house in Scotland, of Ronnie Barker and I with the Choir when we came to Wales to shoot our Welsh choir section of the "Two Ronnies" programme. You are very close to my heart.