you can't equate passive dependent power with assertive power because the dependent kind isn't fun, it doesn't give you a kick, it just allows you to survive.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The same men who are blind and deaf to feminism are acutely sensitive to what threatens their dominance and privilege.

My goal in life is to change the entire social and economic structure of western civilization, to make it a feminist world.

All the women I know feel a little like outlaws.

All men are rapists and that's all they are

The view of life as a struggle for power generates a language in which life has no significance and only power matters.

It's strange how men feel they have the right to criticize a woman's appearance to her face.

For all that "I was lost, I am found, " it is probably more accurate to say, "I was really lost, I'm a little less so at the moment.

Have you ever had a shock in life? It takes great hope, faith and courage to bounce back.

Your attitude is the one thing in this world you have complete control over. You have full command. As empowering as that truth can be, there are some days we let down and give in to a bad attitude.

View the past as your enemy, and it will be an albatross. View it as your friend, and it will give you wings.

The world knew you before you knew the world.

Im no expert on American politics.

Any fool can write a book and most of them are doing it; but it takes brains to build a house.

Today I want to send a message of optismism to all Greeks. Our road, our path, will be more stabilised. Our country will be in a better situation. We will be stronger.

I don't work well outside the lines; my report card once read, "doesn't play well with others."

My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.