“I'd rather do that than build chicken sheds no-one wanted!”

“I'd rather be judged for doing something interesting than not judged and be so utterly boring.”

“I'd rather make a show 100 people need to see, than a show that 1000 people want to see.”

“How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?”

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”

“There's no one who wants this [Deepwater Horizon oil spill] over more than I do. I'd like my life back.”

“Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.”

“I'd rather talk to people who do things than complain about other people who do things. I say they're idiots.”

“I'd rather be proud of what I am, rather than desperately try to be something I'm really not, just to fit in. And whether we want to accept it or not, that's what this culture or lack of culture is feeding us.”

“Our appetite for meat leads to widespread, horrific cruelty to animals—chickens pressed wing-to-wing into filthy sheds and debeaked, for example. And since I've always espoused creative nonviolence as the fundamental gospel value, my vegetarianism helps me not to participate in the vicious torture and destruction of billions of cows, chickens, and so many other creatures. These chickens never raise families, root in the soil, build nests, or do anything natural. … Animals have feelings, they suffer; they have needs and desires. They were created by God to breathe fresh air, raise their families, peck in the grass, or root in the soil. Today's farms don't let them do anything God designed them to do. Animal scientists attest that farm animals have personalities and interests, that chickens and pigs can be smarter than dogs and cats. I like that even Jesus identified himself as “a mother hen who longs to gather us under her wings.””