The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

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.

Baby you don’t even know I’m falling apartIn your fun and games, You’ve stolen my heart.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

I've got a lot of cutting and pasting to do, gentlemen, so why don't you please return to your porch rockers and resume whittling.

Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.

Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative.

Take your dreams and the promises God has put in your heart, and every day declare that they will come to pass.

I wasn't a social butterfly at all.

At the time, the only options were playing the local county fair. Now with American Idol and younger recording artists that have come out, there is more of an opportunity.

Youd be surprised how inspired youll be when you go into a different store than the one you normally go to for gifts.

Happiness is to have a little string onto which things will attach themselves.