I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.

I don't think you lead by pessimism and cynicism. I think you lead by optimism and enthusiasm and energy.

Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

The opposition has moved from a blaming the victim to blaming the victim's advocate's statistics. Irrespective of what the numbers are, it's far too many.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.

Beautiful thoughts in your mind created your life and made you kind.

I'm surprised that people think they're important. To me they're not.

Nature loves nothing solitary, and always reaches out to something, as a support, which ever in the sincerest friend is most delightful.

It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

You cannot light up all the caves. Behave like a sun! Send your light unto everything! It remains up to them to let the light inside their darkness!

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.

Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

I'm in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.

People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.