“I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel.”

“I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.”

“The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not worshipped; it is our future in which we will find our greatness.”

“The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.”

“After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy.Doonsebury”

“I want to be held and told my name. I want to be valued, in ways that I am not; I want to be more than valuable. I repeat my former name; remind myself of what I once could do, how others saw me. I want to steal something.”

“There's more than one way to skin a cat, my father used to say; it bothered me, I didn't see why they would want to skin a cat even one way.”