More and more leaders around the world are joining the struggle. More and more individuals understand that any abuse of any woman is intolerable.

Nowhere in the world is a woman safe from violence. The strengthening of global commitment to counteract this plague is a movement whose time has come.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

I still can't shake the Nebraska off of me.

If you can't jump on board when the ride's going past that's it, it usually goes by, so the hugest compliment they paid me was to come back to me. It motivated me to try to fulfill their faith.

I don't wanna play this kind of cartoon character anymore.

We stand at a moment in history without precedent. Decisions that are ours to make over the next ten years will have a sweeping impact on the future direction of life on the planet.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

In 1979, when I was 39, I had such a bad year, I thought it was all over. Thankfully it wasn't.

This morning came on to me, silver wings silhouetted against the child's sunrise.

Out of what... a thousand?

I am very conscious that I am not wise at all.