My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

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.

Tyranny is Tyranny, let it come from whom it may.

There are no miracles on Mondays.

The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free

What was to fear from a foe that could be defeated by a few potholes and the heat of the sun?

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The only thing you can lose is ... your connection to who-you-are.

My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!

Success will (a.mel.io.rate), ameliorate all the years of your sadness.

Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!

I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries.