We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Archers are pretty focused.

Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.

Kids need to see entertainment where females are valued as much as males.

The main thing about archery is a battle with yourself. You can ruin it all. Once you have learned the technique, the point is to recreate the perfect technique over and over and over.

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I wish I knew who said it, but my favorite quote is, "If a person can do it, I can do it."

Instead of trying to manufacture feelings, use the way you already feel. Or at least add that in.

It's partly because our culture so hyper-sexualizes females that if you don't measure up to whatever we're forced to think is the standard, then you feel inadequate.

But love, the great narcotic, was the hothouse in which all the selves burst into their fullest bloom...

If I have learned one thing from experience, it is this: never underestimate how extraordinarily difficult it is to understand a situation from another person's point of view.

As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.

We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

I wanted to meet the people, to get involved in the city, to make Tokyo mine.

Effective communication is a key factor in the success of your product.

Talent is a firefly; even in a remote dark forest, sooner or later it is caught to an eye.

Lahm is the most intelligent player I have ever trained in my career