We've consistently seen, since the late 1990s, that more than half of women believe that abortion should be severely restricted or abolished altogether.

My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

I have never believed in the impossible.

If those who are sent to draw water begin by drinking themselves, the army is suffering from thirst. [One may know the condition of a whole army from the behavior of a single man.]

Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

Only with a new ruler do you realize the value of the old.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

I like working with people. I believe change can only come through collaboration.

Life is too mysterious to try to map it out. I've certainly lived long enough to know it will take you places you never thought it would take you - and some of those places are kind of wonderful.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.

There is a 'patrician arrogance' to James Taylor that accounts in part for his popularity while it at the same time explains the critical resistance to his work.

I wouldn't mind people saying, "You can't do this because this isn't enough."