A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I have never believed in the impossible.

Revenge is often compared to full course dinner meal best served bitter cold, it is the weakest and poorest excuse for any man or woman to use to hurt another because of there own grief

Bereavement, despair, ache, yearning happen to all. We all bear the pain of grief. We all take them in our own ways. And we are all blessed with the grace to transcend. (Page xii)

There is no such thing as death In nature nothing dies: From each sad moment of decay Some forms of life arise.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

God finds us in the holes we dig for ourselves. We see failures; He sees foundations.

Kaeleigh, queen of passive, all the time saying no, but not strong enough to mean it.

Gestation requires protected space; ripening requires both permeability to the outer — and non-disturbance.

When I started writing this, I found that I simply couldn't take fantasy seriously, so it became humorous, and continued from there.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . .