My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

As I said, men value their independence in a weird way, above practically everything.

Men spend their whole lives showing that they're strong and silent. They fight for independence the way women struggle to connect.

Hope never abandons you, you abandon it.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

The world will step aside for nearly anyone who has the courage of his of her opinions.