I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

the body is wiser than its inhabitants. the body is the soul. the body is god’s messenger.

Walk the path your heart beats faster on.

I call dealing with your calendar the “calendar boogie” because you seriously have to dance around to pull it alltogether.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Let me say this: I'm paranoid of the government. They've lost my trust. They've lied to me so many times that I don't know what to believe from them anymore.

We're at a great transition point in terms of population, demographics, and what it means to be a human being.

The 'interactive fiction' format hasn't changed in any fundamental way since the early 1970s, in the same way that the format of the novel hasn't since 1700.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.