Do not vote for Hillary [Clinton] because she is a woman. Ask yourself, who has done more for women so far and who will do more for women in the future - and then make your choice.

Having it all means having the same work and family choices that men do. It doesn't mean having everything that you want. No one has that.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

In the end, no matter how much you love your work, your work will not love you back.

If we're going to have better choices for women, we've got to have better choices for men.

Believe it or not, we will actually be better and happier workers if we are allowed to be better parents. We might even rediscover our capacity for fun.

The American work environment has to change, not the women. We should be recognizing that what women are not fitting into is a very narrow, male-dominated workplace of the 1950s.

Women still can't have it all.

The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

Motherhood is a greater predictor of wage inequality than gender is. It's enormous.

Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple.

Your position may be highly powerful, but you will be a hero only when you are highly respected.

I saw a limit to what I was giving as kind of a scam I was running on the KGB, by giving them people that I knew were their double agents fed to us.

Writing is not just a job. It helps me to pray. It's a way of being.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

All I say is by way of discourse, and nothing by way of advice. I should not speak so boldly if it were my due to be believed.

Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!

Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.