By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

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.

Some battles take more than one ninja to win.

There is only one real failure in life that is possible and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.

She wasn't just beautiful. She was like the sun coming up: coming up giggling. She was giggling as if she had just remembered something funny.

Fraud is the ready minister of injustice.

No war by any nation in any age has ever been declared by the people.

I'm afraid of plenty of things," he said. "I just do them anyway.

I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

There is no soul that does not respond to love, for the soul of man is a guest that has gone hungry these centuries back.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.