We are, none of us, 'either' mothers or daughters; to our amazement, confusion, and greater complexity, we are both.

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.

Had I to create a name for these times, I’d say it is the age of craziness

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

I've loved you ever since that day you broke your slate over my head in school.

I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain.

He who understands one thing understands everything, for the same laws are in all.

When a torrent sweeps a man against a boulder, you must expect him to scream, and you need not be surprised if the scream is sometimes a theory.

The times when we need prayers or counsel, we are little like to be in a mood to learn, nor yet to understand.

I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.