We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

Yes, you can make a difference! You can speak on behalf of those who are voiceless.

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

Spring is always cruel, with its false promise of resurrection.

Showing is better than telling.

You are lovable, you are loving; your choices about food will reflect that, if you give yourself a chance.

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

I danced growing up. I had two friends of mine that, actually, one of them wound up dancing with Alvin Ailey.

[Koudelka] looked back, "You?! I know you! You trust beyond reason!" [Cordelia] met his eyes steadily, "Yes, it's how I get results beyond hope, as you may recall.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

I'm at a loss for words. But even my loss is amplified.