Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.

Both David Koresh and Timothy McVeigh fell in the fight for freedom, the right of the Americans to be left alone.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

I'll just let time happen. I don't have to articulate what may be or what may not be. I don't even do that to myself.

Guilty she might be. But what human being was not? There were things in her past she needn't be ashamed of, things to be proud of; she wouldn't surrender so meekly to a condemning judgment.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

There's always a hole in theories somewhere if you look close enough.

You can't believe everything you read. It's never been more true.

Gentlemen and maidens in this general vicinity, how doth it go?

Each of us tends to think we see things as they are, that we are objective. But this is not the case. We see the world, not as it is, but as we are - or as we are conditioned to see it.