when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it's very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.

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.

I think I'm still a little too intense for my own good sometimes.

We are on God's side. This is not a war between Arabs and Jews. It's a war between God and the devil.

If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.

The older I get, the more I look like my favorite shoes.

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

If you want to keep giving you have to keep growing.

Whatever my situation, I'm a strong disciplinarian; I can do what I hate to do but do it like I love it.

Forgiving presupposes remembering.

When we are broken because of increased hardship, we simply have to trust in the goodness of God.

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more.