I have met brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility with no history to guide them and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

An eagle does not crawl because it was born to fly.

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred.

The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others.

Isn't it only laughter we can stay human?

Positive attitude is the foundation of your life - and the determining factor of your ability to serve.

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept.

I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say

Sometimes I wish that just solving the plot problems was enough. And then elves would go and do all the actual work moving the words around.

The majority of my blood is Asian.