Women will have achieved true equality when men share with them the responsibility of bringing up the next generation.

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one's time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

Women's rights are an essential part of the overall human rights agenda, trained on the equal dignity and ability to live in freedom all people should enjoy.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens United. I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

Sometimes people say unkind or thoughtless things, and when they do, it is best to be a little hard of hearing — to tune out and not snap back in anger or impatience.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.

If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.

Even if there was a hand, it was the hand of God.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

How much of fashion is fueled by insecurity - for better or worse?

Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.

What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I’m doing it wrong.

God said to Faldo, as He once said to Nicklaus, "You will have the skills like no other." Then he whispered to Ballesteros, as he whispered to Palmer, "But they will love you more."

To mind being disliked by a woman you don’t desire and are not married to is yet another serious failure of common sense.