Every constitution written since the end of World War II includes a provision that men and women are citizens of equal stature. Ours does not.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

I have hunger for your mouth, for your voice, for your hair

We're all suicides. The tragedy is every day that we don't die.

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion but nearly all religions come from that hope.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

The American foreign policy trauma of the sixties and seventies was caused by applying valid principles to unsuitable conditions.

And I believe that the Binomial Theorem and a Bach Fugue are, in the long run, more important than all the battles of history.

Art is a place for children to learn to trust their ideas, themselves, and to explore what is possible.

All love stories are tales of beginnings. When we talk about falling in love, we go to the beginning, to pinpoint the moment of freefall.