Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

My sin is my shame.

Lies are taught by force, truth is taught by choice.

...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.

I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.

To be a god First I must be a god-maker: We are what we create.

I'm from durable stock. I'm made to work. I'm Irish.

Helplessness is a mighty power.

We no longer have roots, we have aerials.

He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in.