I have never believed in the impossible.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

I don't know of a single park without serious environmental problems.

Hide the good you do, and make known the good done to you.

If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

It's always good when women win things in fiction because it tends to be more male-dominated, unlike poetry, which is more equal

"You see," said Mr. Toots, "what I wanted in a wife was - in short, was sense. Money, Feeder, I had. Sense I - I had not, particularly."

I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.

Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.

I am not the first straight dancer or the last.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.