What ticks you off enough to get involved in efforts to better the lot of women? What motivates you to action?

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.

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

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The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before dinner.

If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

I just want to keep trying to surprise myself and I want to keep challenging myself.

Don't let your children take priority over your marriage and your work and everything else.

I am one of the unpraised, unrewarded millions without whom Statistics would be a bankrupt science. It is we who are born, who marry, who die, in constant ratios.

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

I guess it's a kind of a goal for any actor to be the lead of a movie. Not for ego reasons, but because it is creatively the biggest challenge.