Women cannot serve two masters at once who are urgently beaming antithetical orders.... Either we believe in patriarchy the rule of men over women - or we believe in equality.

We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.

It's only when we have nothing else to hold onto that we're willing to try something very audacious and scary.

Freedom is necessary for honesty, honesty for integrity, integrity for power, power for creativity, and all of them for intimacy.

Women have to risk civil disobedience for their rights.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

All bonafide revolutions are of necessity revolutions of the spirit.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

We only really face up to ourselves when we are afraid.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.

In your twenties, if you have any amount of complexity in your childhood, or any trauma that you haven't dealt with, it comes out. That's why you have a lot of artists that don't make it through.

The way to gain a friend is to be one

I only give expression to the instincts from my soul.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

So you should always stay on top of people's vesting schedules.

Personally, I rather think that if you're not creative you've got a problem on your hands. If you are creative you've got a double problem.