We grow our courage muscles like we grow our physical muscles, by using them.

Say the first word. Set the tone for the conversation. Be poised, prepared, and ready to say the first word in any debate or meeting.

Nobody loves you better because you have used yourself up for them.

Women must commit to use our power-to on our own behalf so we can translate it into the power to help others and ourselves.

Knowing your history can give you the tools to shape your future.

Your vision, ideas and plans have the power to shape the future, but not if you keep them to yourself.

The path to big, systemic change is collective action. That takes Sister Courage.

Today's challenge for women: to value ourselves and demand that others do, too.

The definition of promiscuity? One more partner than you've ever had.

If these restrictions were necessary, the FDA would have promulgated them in the first place, the FDA knows how to evaluate scientific information. Congress knows nothing about that.

There’s no excuse…for women today not to own their own power and lead an unlimited life.

We will always have enough reasons to justify what we believe and what we do not believe.

With a heavy heart, I pulled out my own pocket knife, and carved three little words beneath Archer’s. A plea and a wish, in a form I could never take back. Return to me.

When he hit it, I knew that it was my ball. But I had to catch it and it seemed like the hardest catch of my life. I said to myself, 'Two hands, just like your dad taught you.'

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

All social space is suffused with political meanings and agendas, the very stones and walls a kind of testament to the ongoing struggles for liberation and justices.

Heaven is always and forever around us and no soul remembered is ever really gone.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

Taxpayers have spent more than $200 billion in the last decade on computer systems that are antiquated, incompatible, and not doing the job.

Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds.