Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Dreams are there for those who dare to dream them.

If the truth shall kill them, let them die.

It is important that both Japan and the United States continue to invest very heavily in the alliance to build up our defense.

Good-humor will even go so far as often to supply the lack of wit.

Because as an only child, you have your own little world.

We want but two or three friends, but these we cannot do without, and they serve us in every thought we think.

And ar'n't I a woman?

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

I love what I do professionally, I'm really blessed. But my priority is my husband and my children.

There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history.