This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.

We've lost a lot of our great stars. I can't hang out with those who aren't here. The phone service to heaven is so bad, you know. But I get to visit with their memories.

I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else

Lexicographers may be nerds who don't like human contact, but we're still people.

It is better not to make merit a matter of reward Lest people conspire and contend.

I have always believed that if you are honest in what you do, continually reinvent yourself at the same time, and there's respect amongst your band members, then you will be respected.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

I am going to fight for important things.

We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.