You measure a government by how few people need help.

The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

I have a brain and a uterus, and I use both.

The Pledge of Allegiance says "...with liberty and justice for all." What part of "all" don't you understand?

You can't wring your hands and roll up your sleeves at the same time.

When people ask me why I am running as a woman, I always answer, 'What choice do I have?'

Many women have more power than they recognize, and they're very hesitant to use it, for they fear they won't be loved.

Dan Quayle thinks Roe v. Wade is two ways to cross the Potomac.

books are brain food. If every American would purchase the equivalent of his weight in books each year, this country would be a different place.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.

Do I have an option? when asked by the press if she was "running as a woman."

Rules and models destroy genius and art.

We wish genius and morality where affectionate companions, but it is a fact that they are often bitter enemies. They don't necessarily coalesce any more than oil and water do.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I can't imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous.

Ambition will, and should, always outstrip achievement.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

I love the idea of the street vibe, having folks together, out in the street at midnight.

The fame which bids fair to live the longest resembles that which Horace attributes to Marcellus, whose progress he compares to the silent, imperceptible growth of a tree.

First your legs go. Then you lose your reflexes. Then you lose your friends