A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.

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.

Keeping or holding on to a concept shows belief but building or adding to it shows confidence and depth of character.

the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very muchhigher.

The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

Love, children, and work, are the great sources of fertilizing contact between the individual and the rest of the world.

Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.

I don't play lovers. I wish I did. At least once I'd like to have a crack at one of those guys. A heartbreaker. Some people are born to it. I'm not.

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

It wasn't even a good note. 'If you are reading this I am probably dead.' What sort of a note is that?

A fool and his money be soon at debate