Most women are one man away from welfare.

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.

She filed those moments away like precious documents, wore them smooth with memory, collected them like bits of prayers.

19. All possibilities I will attemptAnd as I am here now, Knowing what I know now, I have faith in myselfThat I will succeedAnd I will succeed.And I will succeed.

Mozart's music gives us permission to live.

Composing gives me great pleasure... there is nothing that surpasses the joy of creation, if only because through it one wins hours of self-forgetfulness, when one lives in a world of sound.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

On my bad days, I sometimes wonder what philosophers are for.

When you are 16 you are supposed to be doing cool things, like sneaking alcohol, not living in Disney World and doing skits about mice.

We have four boxes with which to defend our freedom: the soap box, the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.

I don’t want to be an anti, against anybody. I simply want to be the builder of a great affirmation: the affirmation of God,who loves us and who wants to save us.

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.