Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I have never believed in the impossible.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone in his hair. He spread his arm out wide. "I will go mad!" he annouced.

Have no fear in the devil and acknowledge the insecurities, mistakes of the past, and disappointments that you have long failed to accept as new beginnings and see the child within you begin to heal.

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light.

I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

You have to be a little crazy to be a dancer.

To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.

I think 'unbelievable' is an unbelievably stupid word.

I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.