Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

One makes his own meanings as the counterfeiter prints his own money: both know full well that the value of either rests solely in the gullibility of its recipient...

Just as we will never grasp the full meaning of God, we will also never grasp the full meaning of love.

All business sagacity reduces itself in the last analysis to a judicious use of sabotage.

Ministry is not about where you are or where you go, it is about where He is.

I don't really cook much. I'm more of a baker. My favorite things to bake that everybody loves, and I can only keep in the house for about ten minutes, are 7-Up cake and Pineapple Upside-Down cake.

Nothing is more revealing of an age than its hypocrisies.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

She had never been so close to anybody. It was as if they were one being, together, not predator and prey, but partners in a dance.

Bring your work back to the workshop twenty times. Polish it continuously, and polish it again.

Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.