When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

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.

Look into your heart- and go after what you really want.

Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.

Don’t be sorry. You could hurt me a thousand different ways and I’d love it every time.

Revealed religion is one thing, revealed legislation, another.

When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins.

What has happened to us has happened to everyone or only to us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

Every leader wants to put his or her imprint on the work that they do, and grow up in specific eras.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.