But before we were mothers, we have been, first of all, women, with actual bodies and actual minds.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

You are as young as you think.

I think it's so cool to be tall. Even when I'm not wearing heels people tell me I'm tall and I always take it as a complement. The good thing is I can always see everybody in the room.

My sisters and I were fortunate to travel through Asia and Europe at very young ages. We confronted extraordinary beauty in Athens and unspeakable poverty in India.

Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?

Women have been brought up much like slaves, that is, to lie.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

Whoever is not too wise is wise. [Lat., Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit.]

The second wife [Trudi Bernstein] - the best part of that union, our two daughters, and that lasted about five years.

Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.