Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Love grows by service.

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.

I don't use big words to show off because it's ostentatious.

I have dreams that I will reach balance in my life, and, at forty-one, I have none.

At EMILY's List, we’re in the business of expanding the political power of women.

Every putt is different. Your feet dictate the stroke by how they feel on the green. I just never used the same stroke on every putt.

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Make good stuff, then make it easy for people to buy it. There’s your anti-piracy plan.

I've had a tough time learning how to act like a Congressman. Today I accidentally spent some of my own money.

He was a solemn, unsmiling, sanctimonious old iceberg who looked like he was waiting for a vacancy in the Trinity.

No temporary chaos is worth your sanity. Just knowing that whatever happens, it happens to the best of them too.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.