You may very well fall in love with somebody who makes less money, who's younger than you, who weighs less than you.

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.

Cuba may be the only place in the world where you can be yourself and more than yourself at the same time

Every great soul nurtures strong positive mental power.

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The less you need, the more you live

A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.

Make certain that your goals are not measured in comparison with others.

I don't have a copy of my books, and the degree to which I never read them is profound. I never look.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.