If you let Barnum & Bailey interpret a plot by Stendahl, it might come out to be something like the 1972 Democratic convention.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

I was burdened with an ever-growing heart on the verge of decay. To save myself, I had to give many pieces of my love away. I hope I can give it all to someone, someday.

Think before you speak. Question before you judge. Examine before you decide.

I am here tracing the History of the Earth itself, from its own Monuments.

Hunger, revenge, to sleep are petty foes, But only death the jealous eyes can close.

We are a nation that is unenlightened because of religion. I do believe that. I think that religion stops people from thinking. I think it justifies crazies.

There has never been nationhood without falsehood.

But Wall Street people are in fact very smart; they're funny, they're not company men who work their way up the chain.

If you can connect all the dots between what you see today and where you want to go, then it's probably not ambitious enough or aspirational enough.

Human nature is such that monogamy is a really hard thing to achieve.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.