I truly believe that a woman who knows herself, and who thus knows her true value, can never be frightened into being co-opted.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

I believed in the faith of faith without acknowledging his quality of being an absolute truth.

Tightness takes more energy than the letting go.

I mean, frankly, I'm not speaking as a representative of Disney or Pixar, I'm speaking as just myself as a filmmaker: I don't go into anything that often thinking about a sequel.

There must be some great truth underlying the instinct for worship.

I don't really drink very much, although I have abused alcohol in the past.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

Society is divided into two classes, the shearers and the shorn.

I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

A noble heart, like the sun, showeth its greatest countenance in its lowest estate.