I am a woman in the prime of my life, with certain powers and those powers severely limited by authorities whose faces I rarely see.

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.

The only cure for a real hangover is death.

To Europe she was America. To America she was the gateway to the earth. But to tell the story of New York would be to write a social history of the world.

We are far from perfect but willing to be different.

I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that.

I hate losing more than I like winning

I grew up on the bus, or riding my bike, or catching the subway, I've never had a car. In college, any girl I ever dated had a car, too.

A myth or legend is simply not made up out of a vacuum. Nothing is--or can be. Somehow there is a kernel of truth behind it, however distorted that might be.

Oh how I wish he (Franklin Pierce) was out of political life! How much better it would be for him on every account!

Isn't everyone just travelling down their own road watching the signs as they go?