I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons

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.

There is nothing so inspiring as true heartfelt gratitude.

To Declare Your Stand For Righteousness Is To Eliminate Fear

You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood. --Raphael Sinclair

The more broken you are, the more light gets through.

Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

Sure, Malcolm Turnbull is less anti-science and anti-culture than [Tony] Abbott, but low bar, and there's not a lot to show for it beyond rhetoric.

While in a vintage restaurant..."the past isn't quaint while you're in it. Only at a safe distance, later, when you see it as decor, not as the shape your life's been squeezed into.

Experience is a funny thing. You dont always have it when you need it.

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.