no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

It’s an artist’s right to rebel against the world’s stupidity.

We live in condensations of our imagination

When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. Happiness is a habit. Cultivate it.

The minute someone says 'Oh God, you could never do that; you can't get that kind of stuff on the air'...that's the kind of stuff I want to do.

The mind must have for ballast the clear conception of duty, if it is not to fluctuate between levity and despair.

The U.S. has no friends, only interests.

The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.

See yonder rock from which the fountain gushes; is it less compact of adamant, though waters flow from it? Firm hearts have moister eyes.