I like to believe that the road is sharpening my mind and lengthening my life with surprise.

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.

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

Everything I do nowWas once an unremembered dream.-Spoken by Dr. Perry after return from the chrysalis

Money is my drug of choice--and you can't make money if you're always stoned or high. (Twila Taunton in Redneck P.I.)

I am not a jazz singer. I wouldn't place myself on that footing. I wouldn't even enter that arena.

I hope people come to the shows because they feel like there's something there that I can't necessarily articulate, but it's real and it's fun.

The beauty of a face is not a separate quality but a relation or proportion of qualities to each other.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

I beseech you to consider that God does not deal by you as you deal with him.

The first jazz cruise that I was on was '91. I played with Maria Schneider and John Fedchock's band. Got to meet some amazing people that week.

Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.