Go back so far there is another language go back far enough the language is no longer personal.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

There is nothing to fear but fear itself, " the captain announces from the helm, "and the occasional man-eating monster.

I want to weep too, not for me but for us all--for rich or poor, educated or illiterate, here we are finally reduced to a sameness in this sisterhood of deprivation.

Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

Now every model wants to be an actress

It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence.

That's you, right?' he asks me. 'Yeah.' 'Cute. Not that I, uh, think little kids are cute. Just that you were cute. I mean, you can see how you turned out to be so...oh.

Good and bad, strengths and faults, he was hers forever.

I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.