The spread of feminism is the most spectacular, extraordinary phenomenon in the last twenty years, and I believe we will accomplish our goals in a million different ways.

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.

One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.

The essence of a free life is being able to choose the style of living you prefer free from exclusion and without the compulsion of conformity or law.

You can't win what you don't fight for.

If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

There is no reason to repeat bad history.

Racial oppression of black people in America has done what neither class oppression or sexual oppression, with all their perniciousness, has ever done: destroyed an entire people and their culture.

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

Men without jobs do not form families.

You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in.

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

If you go to the Air and Space Museum in Washington, you can see the burn patterns on Friendship 7.

I weirdly do consider myself an optimist about love.

I try to really take my art serious, and pay attention to detail.

A responsible person is one who responds.

The reality is you do not know exactly what is likely to occur tomorrow. Lifetime can be a ridiculous trip, and practically nothing is confirmed.

I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

In business people negotiate to win. They negotiate to get what they want. Love is different. Love is when you are as concerned about someone else's situation as you are about your own.

Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.