Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

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.

The art of conversation lies in listening

A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn’t want to break.

Blessed are you who sow. Every seed you so plant, will grow into bountiful crops for great harvest.

What might happen if we could somehow reorient ourselves toward our more loving, bonobo side rather than our inner mad chimpanzee?

We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

Say it before you run out of time. Say it before it's too late. Say what you're feeling. Waiting is a mistake.

It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.

The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.

Breastroke is an athletic event, butterfly is a political statement.

I spend a lot of time thinking of the Hereafter - each time I enter a room I wonder what I'm here after.