It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age.

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at the fact when he casually mentions her ten children.

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

Despite where you stand in life at the moment, always remember that your presence on earth matters as much as everyone else's.

It strikes me that perhaps this is part of what we are fighting to choose. Which pain to feel.

Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

Polygamists have no connection with us whatsoever. They don't belong to the church. There are actually no Mormon fundamentalists.

If there is something I would like to do as President of the General Assembly, it is to place more emphasis on the issue of education, which enables a better life for women.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.