The most notable fact that culture imprints on women is the sense of our limits. The most important thing one woman can do for another is to illuminate and expand her sense of actual possibilities.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

Change is not a threat to your life, but an invitation to live.

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

My heart is moved by all I cannot save: so much has been destroyed I have to cast my lot with those who age after age, perversely, with no extraordinary power, reconstitute the world.

We must use what we have to invent what we desire.

Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.

The beauty of darkness is how it lets you see.

If you are trying to transform a brutalized society into one where people can live in dignity and hope, you begin with the empowering of the most powerless. You build from the ground up.

Until we know the assumptions in which we are drenched, we cannot know ourselves.

Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality.

When you understand the value of time, the resource and the wealth of time, you will be running away from the crowd.

To rule out the possibility of belief in another's reality is to encapsulate that reality and, thus, to impose implicity the hegemony of one's own view of the world.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

Impermanence is the very essence of joy-the drop of bitterness that enables one to perceive the sweet.

Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.

When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.

I do not remember the '70s, for who-knows-what-all reasons.

It was just that she had the need to tell him something honest, something honest and unhappy, because cheerful lies tonight were too depressing and too sharp, turning in on her like pins

Before Grease 2, I was called the next Richard Gere, then after Grease 2, nobody would touch me.

I do not have to build a perfect wall today. I just have to lay a perfect brick.