To take philosophy seriously is to engage with it philosophically.
I want to be a better Chris Quinn. I don't want to be a different Chris Quinn.
People used to feel oddly empowered to tell me all the reasons I couldn't win. Because I was a woman. Because I was a lesbian. Because I was from the West Side of Manhattan.
I'm an aggressive woman who gets things done, and that's the way it is, and I've never been embarrassed about the fact that I am pushy.
It would be thrilling, obviously, to be able to have a woman and an openly LGBT person as the mayor of New York City.
Cliven Bundy is breaking the law. He's breaking the law and he wants all of us to pay for his cattle while he's ranting about people who are part of social welfare programs.
I have a tendency toward being a micromanager.
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.
The Penny Post will do more for the circulation of ideas, for the fostering of domestic affections, for the humanizing of the mass generally, than any other single measure that our national wit can devise.
The truth is the real Christian experience is truly about repenting every day because there is no Christian that doesn't sin.
When I'm with my friends' teenage children, I always say, 'Are your friends having sex yet?'