My mom did costumes for the Pointer Sisters.

I know that I'm getting the real deal with my mom. I know that she's telling it like it is. She's proud of me when I've earned it and she's disappointed in me when I've earn that. She's really my spectrum on where I am as a person.

Mom and Pop were proud of my popularity but from their point of view show business was no way to make a living.

Mothers send strips to daughters to make a point. Daughters smack strips down on the breakfast table to make a point. My own mom sometimes cuts a strip out and sends it to me to make sure I understand her.

I'm a religious person. I remember my mom told me: 'Vengeance belongs to God. It's up to him to wreak vengeance.' It's hard for me to get to that point but that's the work of God.

When I got into junior high school that's when my mom let me dress how I wanted to dress. Up to that point I wore suits to school all the time.

I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

I loved raising my kids. I loved the process the dirt of it the tears of it the frustration of it Christmas Easter birthdays growth charts pediatrician appointments. I loved all of it.

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out about a century ago that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense.

All men are liable to error and most men are in many points by passion or interest under temptation to it.

Most of us women like men you know it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger every innovation as a toilsome trouble every social advance as a first step toward revolution and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all.

I try to speak my points of view about black America and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women.

Men marry because they are tired women because they are curious both are disappointed.

In 1963 and later papers I pointed out that the special market characteristics of medical care and medical insurance could be explained by reference to differences in information among the parties involved.

And it was back in the mid-1980s and as I point out in a piece that was when we are spending about eight percent of our gross domestic product on health care. And even then we had the impression that so much of the excessive aggressive medical treatment that took place at the end of life was not only unnecessary but it was cruel.

There's lots of problem solving in any marriage but when you have this collective goal that is a human being it's an inspiring rally point.

Obviously the anti-ERA people are tickled about my ordeal because it proves that the ERA breaks up families. When they point out that feminism is a dangerous thing I just say marriage is pretty precarious too.

When I got married in my twenties I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

No person connected with me by blood or marriage will be appointed to office.

Marriage at this point in my life? I'm not interested in it. Yet. Maybe later when I'm 35 or 40.