People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit.

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.

Agitation gives birth to creation.

When my mother was raising me, she moved us upstate to the Woodstock area. Our closest neighbor was a mile away. She planted all her own vegetables.

Together we will be unstoppable.

We live in a time today where we face fierce global competition.

Screenwriting and making movies is really playing make-believe like most of us did as children.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

I think that it's a universal urge to have our pain not be felt alone and to have our joys not be felt alone.

Life gets harder the smarter you get, the more you know.

You are embarking on the greatest adventure of your life - to improve your self-image, to create more meaning in your life and in the lives of others. This is your responsibility.

Violent revolutions usually only mean a change of personnel at the top.