"Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant."

"Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero."

"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

"Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice."

"Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much."

"History should be written as philosophy."

"Knowledge is the gathering of scattered facts; wisdom is the synthesis of lived experience. A lesson woven into the fabric of human history."

"Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government."