What is being called the UN 'gender architecture' is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality.

Feminism is an entire world view or gestalt, not just a laundry list of women's issues.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

I'd make a comment at a meeting and nobody would even acknowledge me. Then some man would say the same thing and they'd all nod.

Feminism is a transformational force, an individual and social force. It is a way of looking at the world-a questioning of power/domination issues, an affirmation of women's energy.

The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

Women have a lot to say about how to advance women's rights, and governments need to learn from that, listen to the movement and respond.

Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.

We know that priorities are amiss in the world when a man gets a military medal of honor for killing another man and a dishonorable discharge for loving one.

We need women leaders. But we need them to have a vision for something.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Hypocrisy is a tribute that vice pays to virtue.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I think you have to live inside your contradictions and find a way to accept that that's the human condition - to be forced to live in contradiction.

Some of you guys must have real jobs - office jobs. Anybody? By a show of broken spirits.

Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in the future.

Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you.

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

We need everyone to participate to make our city safe. And we know that the vast majority of immigrants are contributing positively to our economy and to our society here in the city of New York.

I'm falling back on what some of the standard protocols for politics are after victory. We in America do not prosecute defeated political enemies.