Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.

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.

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

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.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason.

Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.

My life is not a game that I play to entertain you.

As an actor, of course, you want to be in something that's successful.

Don't put your life on hold so that you can dwell on the unfairness of past hurts.

What seems most likely is generally true.

If you excuse yourself in confession, you shut up sin within your soul, and shut out pardon.

You won’t arrive. It is an endless search.

I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.