... black women have always found that in the social order of things we're the least likely to be believed--by anyone.

We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

You can't educate a child who isn't healthy, and you can't keep a child healthy who isn't educated.

It is often easier for our children to obtain a gun than it is to find a good school.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

We've tried ignorance for a thousand years. It's time we try education.

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

You can't educate people that are not healthy. But you certainly can't keep them healthy if they're not educated.

I'm against abstinence programs because I really consider "abstinence only" child abuse.

Given a choice between hearing my daughter say "I'm pregnant" or "I used a condom", most mothers would get up in the middle of the night and buy them herself.

If men went through menopause, we'd know everything about it, but we still don't even know if we should be taking hormones.

What is that thing? It looks like a model of the human digestive tract made from broken beer bottles and sadness.

We are the totality of what we consume, in every way possible.

Distinguish between power and control, delegate, be decisive - and always remember people's first names.

As long as we rationalize nuclear weapons as "necessary" in order to save American lives, then nuclear weapons will never be gotten rid of.

I'm not a big believer in linear paths. I would always have these sort of five-year plans and think, 'Ok, I wouldn't mind to try to get here in five years.'

The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.

He got the crib, so for the first few months of my life I had to sleep in the top dresser drawer, which I'm pretty sure isn't even legal.

There's a lot of Democrats, myself included, who have supported right-to-life.

A little nepotism never hurt nobody, honey. If you got it, use it. Press on with it. Remind them of it.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers