I was an all-sport athlete growing up. My dad, I think, hoped I would go to college on a scholarship.

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

The people are what matter to government, and a government should aim to give all the people under its jurisdiction the best possible life.

We live out our call most fully when we are a community of faith with arms wrapped about a community of pain.

Being a woman has only bothered me in climbing trees.

Feminism means revolution and I am a revolutionist.

I came to Washington to work for God, FDR, and the millions of forgotten, plain common workingmen.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

The accusation that I am a woman is incontrovertible.

Success not maintained is worst than Poverty inheritted. Riches without maintenance is worst than inheritted Poverty.

A mere love of wisdom is often enough to make oneself wiser.

We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it a reality more than the visionary.

Everything I wrote about wasn't about me, but about the people listening.

One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education.

He groaned and I saw his face. "Curran!" I would've preferred a homicidal lunatic. Oh, wait...

I desire my children to be educated south of the Mason Dixon line and always to retain right of domicile in the Confederate States.

It is the action of bodies on bodies, not bodies on minds, which the crowd enjoys.

I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

I'm not a beautiful woman. I'm nothing to look at, so the only thing I can do is dress better than anyone else.