Whoever has power takes over the noun - and the norm - while the less powerful get an adjective.

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.

God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

No man can call himself liberal, or radical, or even a conservative advocate of fair play, if his work depends in any way on the unpaid or underpaid labor of women at home, or in the office.

The purpose of feminism is to free the uniqueness of the individual and to understand that inside each of us is a unique human being who is a combination of heredity and environment.

Superwoman is the adversary of the women's movement.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

Eventually the real world intruded again, and Sophie had to return to campus—woefully behind on homework, but incandescently in love.

All life is the struggle the effort to be itself.

The expression working like a dog dates back to a time in America when men would rise early, then lie around all day and lick their balls.

Silence does for thinking what a suspension bridge does for space -- it makes connections.

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

Just because you're big doesn't mean you can't be an athlete. And just because you work out doesn't mean you're going to have a 12-pack.

If you fall asleep on horseback, the horse will stop by the rock. Art is a car. Kitsch is a horse.

I hated golf when we first started, but a big part of the training process was falling in love with this sport, so I went on tour with the UCLA Team.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.