I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

Don't list to those who say YOU CAN'T. Listen to the voice inside yourself that says, I CAN.

Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.

In the end anti-black, anti-female, and all forms of discrimination are equivalent to the same thing: anti-humanism.

I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

I've always met more discrimination being a woman than being Black...men are men.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

Health is a human right, not a privilege to be purchased.

The doubter doesn't sure which one is right, but it tends to demean other people's beliefs.

Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes but is a reward in itself.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

My own style is pretty classic I much prefer to design for others.

The essential matter of history is not what happened but what people thought or said about it.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

No one has characterized market mechanisms better than Friedrich von Hayek

I have had a thousand kisses, for which with my whole soul I thank love—but if you should deny me the thousand and first—‘t would put me to the proof how great a misery I could live through.

I was only following God's orders.

I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.