And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

God gave you a vision so you can beget a dream

Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest.

The guns on the walls that surround the prison accurately, though unwittingly, index the true character of the penitentiary in our day.

We need to hear the sound of our voice for what we think and need.

Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

On the first feature, everything's new. No matter what you're doing, it's a new experience, and you don't really have control over it, in a way, because you just don't know how things work.

I fall into all kinds of inauthenticity when I conspire to forget my mortality.

There's no prayer like desire.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.