In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden.

by then I'd figured out the gift of failure, which is that it breaks through all that held breath and isometric tension about needing to look good: it's the gift of feeling floppier.

The world must know what happened, and never forget.

Stay on your toes and always move forward.

If you are in a state of mind in which all things are one, then you can spend your time in lingerie shops.

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Let me tell you the truth: The truth is what is. And what should be is a fantasy a terrible, terrible lie that someone gave the people long ago.

I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.

What am I doing? Nothing. I am letting life rain upon me.

No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience.