The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.

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.

Enjoy the times of plentiful and endure the times of scarcity.

A king may rule the kingdom but the queen still moves the board.

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table than when his wife talks Greek.

I see no business in life but the work of Christ.

Good similes depend upon close observation. They depend upon brevity and wit....They have to fit in context.

In this life, you have to be your own hero.

When you put your hand in a flowing stream, you touch the last that has gone before and the first of what is still to come.

Once you accept defeat, it becomes ease to lose. If defeat comes, face it and take it, but don't accept it.

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up.