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Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

Maybe I'm a bad feminist, but I am deeply committed to the issues important to the feminist movement. I have strong opinions about misogyny, institutional sexism that consistently places women at a disadvantage, the inequity in pay, the cult of beauty and thinness, the repeated attacks on reproductive freedom, violence against women, and on and on. I am as committed to fighting fiercely for equality as I am committed to disrupting the notion that there is an essential feminism.

Maybe I’ll never be able to do what I hope to, but at least I have hope.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.

Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated.

Men's best successes come after their disappointments.

Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it.

Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.

Microbes are just nature's janitors who work to clean up a poorly kept culturing medium. Trying to keep microbes off of and out of your body is like trying to keep the wind out of the trees.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Modern society will find no solution to the ecological problem unless it takes a serious look at its lifestyle.

Mom and Dad would stay in bed on Sunday morning, but the kids would have to go to church.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Money is the best deodorant.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Money is the barometer of a society's virtue.

Money isn't the most important thing in life, but it's reasonably close to oxygen on the 'gotta have it' scale.

Money is not the most important thing in the world. Love is. Fortunately, I love money.

Money will come when you are doing the right thing.

Morality becomes hypocrisy if it means accepting mothers' suffering or dying in connection with unwanted pregnancies and illegal abortions and unwanted children

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

More than any other factor, it is the people we have to deal with that determine the quality of our work lives.

Most diseases are the result of medication which has been prescribed to relieve and take away a beneficent and warning symptom on the part of Nature.

Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.

Most beginners want to learn lead because they think it's cool .. consequently, they never really develop good rhythm skills .. since most of a rock guitarists time is spent playing rhythm, it's important to learn to do it well .. learning lead should come after you can play solid backup and have the sound of the chords in your head

Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, mission and a team that deliver results at a high level, even the best product won't make a company successful.

Mothers are the heart of any household. I try to spend as much time with my children as I possibly can while also fulfilling my professional duties. It is tricky, but I think I manage it.

Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.

Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.

Movies took you right up to the edge but kept you safe.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate in portraying young people as romantic - as wanting a relationship, an understanding with a member of the opposite sex more than just physical sex.

Most of us in the baby-boom generation were raised by full-time mothers. Even as recently as 14 years ago, 6 out of 10 mothers with babies were staying at home. Today that is totally reversed. Does that mean we love our children less than our mothers loved us? No, but it certainly causes a lot of guilt trips.

Most of us have achieved levels of affluence and comfort unthought of two generations ago. We've never had it so good, most of us. Nor have we ever complained so bitterly about our problems.

Motherhood is... difficult and... rewarding.

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.

Mournful and yet grand is the destiny of the artist.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is.

[My favorite thing about motherhood is] that it's made me grow into a woman finally, and I finally grew up, thank God.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.