Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

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.

Indecision is the reluctance or inability to pass a judgment on an issue under consideration. Indecision means you have come to crossroads and you cannot make your mind.

I leave, and the leaving is so exhilarating I know I can never go back. But then what? Do I just keep leaving places, and leaving them, and leaving them, tramping a perpetual journey?

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.

There are three stages in the revelation of truth. The first is to be ridiculed, the second is to be resisted and the third is to be considered self-evident.

You can never discount the pleasure of showing up to work with Scarlett Johansson and now Cobie Smulders. That's just a day that's easy on your eyes.

There's going to be other wars. I'm sorry to tell you, there's going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

What is there about polarity that is matter becoming more complex?

My mother was an extremely creative woman, despite the fact that she lived the life of a rural housewife.

The Navy is very old and very wise.