I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time.

Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.

Poems are like dreams: in them you put what you don't know you know.

Don’t judge me for escaping the stresses and cruelty of the world differently than you do.

Many things matter other than our measured intelligence, so let's get to work on them.

It is better to be wrong than correct with no desire to be.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

If you will please people, you must please them in their own way; and as you cannot make them what they should be, you must take them as they are.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.