Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

In Britain the government has to come down in front of Parliament every day to explain its actions, but here the President never answers directly to Congress.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Attachment with god keeps you decoupled with worldly things around you. Do your duty but leave the result to super power so that you can relieve yourself from pain and attain peace.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm.

In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread.

My mind's a machine gun, my body's the bullets and the audience is the target.

The dullard finds even wine tasteless, while the sorcerer is intoxicated by the mere sight of water.

What we choose, changes us. What we love, transforms us.

That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.

It's not about perfection; it's about the joy of striving.

I've never been very fully employed either.