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.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.

Most beautiful things comes to us free of charge.

Authentic leadership is a whole body experience. Our bodies have a lot more to teach us about ourselves than our thoughts.

Lack of something to feel important about is almost the greatest tragedy a man may have.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Giving up my heels was harder than giving up the drugs.

I like to know what's happening.

Skepticism is not a position that you stake out ahead of time and stick to no matter what.

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.

I know Americans talk a great deal about the price of things - more, I consider, than is entertaining, sometimes!