The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

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.

Chess is an effective means to educate and train the human intellect.

The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.

It's a poore stake that cannot stand one yeare in the ground.

Go sweep out the chamber of your heart. Make it ready to be the dwelling place of the Beloved. When you depart out, He will enter it. In you, void of yourself, will He display His beauties.

Under the beautiful moonlight, there remains no ugly reality; even muds turn into the diamonds!

My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects.

There is nothing so necessary for men as dancing.

During my grief, I realised there was nothing I could do for my mother, but I did have a child.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Over time, as the daily routines become second nature, discipline morphs into habit.