I'm one of these very focused people when it comes to day-to-day work and I'm trying not to think about what comes next so that I can stay very focused on what I'm doing now.

Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work - and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't.

The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.

What people don't understand about Sarah Palin is that she is a rancher's wife. From Alberta down to Texas I've known women like that: good common sense bright and vilified by city people.

This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs things today might have been different.

As women we have more of a tendency to be people-pleasers and I know a lot of women who are not vocal about what makes them happy.

I'm so sick of hearing how there's no strong roles for women. I don't care about strong roles. I just want to see women who are characters! A nun a serial killer a housewife as long as there's some depth there.

I think I am really irreverent and I pretty much just talk to and about men the way men talk to and about women.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn herself grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.