My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I have never believed in the impossible.

The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.

No one here gets out alive.

The focus on the desired outcome will push you through every difficulty.

I believe in the power of poetry, which gives me reasons to look ahead and identify a glint of light.

A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work.

man's oldest and least reputable occupation - war.

People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow.

When I was a child I truly loved: Unthinking love as calm and deep As the North Sea. But I have lived, And now I do not sleep.

The good nail will do its job regardless what kind of hammer comes its way and what kind of surface it sits on.