My uncertain temper is cooling, as is my sense of racing against time to accomplish the things I want to. I don't have to go anywhere or see anyone I don't want to now, and it is a glorious feeling!

Being a part of a political party is something like being a partner in a marriage - work at it and stay loyal to it, and when you can't stomach it any longer, leave it.

Pity the Party without enough woman power - there will always be dreamers and leaders, but the dreams won't come true, nor will the leaders reach their goal, without the ready doers.

The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.

I have served the Liberal cause for twenty-two years. That ought to be long enough for anyones lifetime.

Out of near disaster, came real progress.

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

Everyone is an expert on T.V., just as he is on education; everyone has some education and a T.V. set.

I cannot say that I have been hindered all my life by the permutation of genes that resulted in me being born a woman.

Most women have a distaste for guns, and I am no exception.

A government may only govern so long as the people, through their representatives, vote it the money to carry on.

Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.

Money makes even bastards legitimate.

To stand emotionally open before the world & give of our hearts without fear of hurt or demand of reciprocity - this is the ultimate act of human courage.

It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.

My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.

N.T. Wright foregrounds what the Bible backgrounds, and backgrounds what the Bible foregrounds

Morning found us unaware, noon burn gold into our hair, at night we swim the laughin sea, where will we be?

Too many times women try to be competitive with each other. We should help support each other, rather than try to be better than each other.

Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.

The Poor Peasants' Committees are necessary to fight the kulaks, the rich, the exploiters, who shackle the working peasants.