You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.

Men and women are like right and left hands: it doesn't make sense not to use both.

We're half the people; we should be half the Congress.

The greatest threat to peace is the barrage of rightist propaganda portraying war as decent, honorable, and patriotic.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

Killing more people won't help matters.

I worked for suffrage for years, and got it. I've worked for peace for 55 years and haven't come close.

Go! Go! Go! It makes no difference where, just so you go! go! go! Remember, at the first opportunity, go!

Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!

You have to put yourself out there as a writer, you can’t play it safe.

An enemy should be struck at his weak point.

I still check the weather every day, usually multiple times a day, because I know at a moment's notice, a dream crop can turn into a disaster.

Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy.

You can never give up. With love, anything is possible.

I feel like I'm always put with someone who's like, "Come on! Please be happy!".

When your reasons to move forward outweigh your excuses for staying put, you will move forward.

There are five issues that make a fist of a hand that can knock America out cold. They're lack of jobs, obesity, diabetes, homelessness, and lack of good education.