To me, the model of success is not linear. Success is completing the full circle of yourself.

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.

Sustainable change, after all, depends not upon compliance with external mandates or blind adherence to regulation, but rather upon the pursuit of the greater good.

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own instead of someone else's.

... it's always interesting when one doesn't see. If you don't see what a thing means, you must be looking at it wrong way round.

We are all children of the same God, and we have to come together to solve our problems and not be fighting so much.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

The right wing in this country is waging a war against women, and let me be very clear, it is not a war that we are going to allow them to win.

That moment when the person actually dictates the way I do the portrait is when the intimacy arrives.

I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

I don’t dabble and spend much mind or time dealing with, I don’t know, people’s perceptions of me. I truly don’t.

I don't (do) the paintings for the money at all. I just love to paint, even if I don't sell them.