The only thing I can't stand is discomfort.

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.

I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am.

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives.

When You Try To Control Everything, Remember, It's Just A Matter of Time You'll End Up Losing Everything....

Saying of the ProphetHumilityHumility and courtesy are themselves a part of piety.

Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins become fetters if they cannot alter.

Swan, by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page.

Self-love is a big part of golf.

Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.

SF is the literature of the theoretically possible, and F is the literature of the impossible.

One who strictly prosecutes the misdemeanors of others will find not condescension towards his own.