The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

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.

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.

Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'

I find great lighting and a squint of the eyes makes anyone look better.

The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.

I must have books everywhere. They're the soul of a room-they reveal the taste, the interests, and the secrets of whoever lives there.

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

It wasn’t so much that I was positive. I just wasn’t fully subscribing to such a negative way of thinking anymore.

All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.