If history is really relevant in today's world, the proposition doesn't command much respect. Perhaps the past is a different country, but if so no one much wants to travel there.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

Power is the ability not to have to please.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.

The greatest barrier to women's advance in the public world of action has been their acquiescence in the idea that they don't belong out there.

Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.”She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in dark-brown mood. He shrugged, and left her.

To contact the deeper truth of who we are, we must engage in some activity or practice that questions what we assume to be true about ourselves.

The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

Do what's right for you, so long as it don't hurt no one.

Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it.

I think the media put more pressure on women, especially in regards to the way they look and how they're supposed to behave.

A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.

When the power of imparting joy is equal to the will, the human soul requires no other heaven.