Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.

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.

If I couldn't be a good example, I'd just have to be a horrible warning.

In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.

God’s anointing is not based on your performance, but if you don’t open the Word, you’re stupid, because that’s where the words of life are.

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

The aim of Zen training is to attain the state of consciousness which occurs when the individual ego is emptied of itself and becomes identified with the infinite reality of all things.

Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is.

At the end of the day, people want to see how fast you run.

Sanctification is not by surrender, but by divinely enabled toil and effort.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

O let me be awake, my God! Or let me sleep alway.