“when pain has been intertwined with love and closeness, it’s very difficult to believe that love and closeness can be experienced without pain.”

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

Intelligence without character is a dangerous thing.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

Inner space is the real frontier.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters – because we never know which things might.

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

There are two types of people in the world, those who say ‘there are two types of people in the world’ and those who don’t.

One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!

If the shoe doesn’t fit, must we change the foot?

I want us to organize, to tell the personal stories that create empathy, which is the most revolutionary emotion.

I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Battered women is a phrase that uncovered major, long-hidden violence. It helps us to face the fact that, statistically speaking, the most dangerous place for a woman is in her own home, not in the streets.

If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.

No one can give us power. If we aren’t part of the process of taking it, we won’t be strong enough to use it.

Challenge negative forces with hope, self-confidence and conviction. I believe that ambition and initiative will ultimately triumph.

I believe that you should praise people whenever you can; it causes them to respond as a thirsty plant responds to water.

One day when someone calls you beautiful, you will believe it.

Believing in him was the mistake that cost you so much of your life.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

I believe that work if often the best antidote for grief.

I truly believe my job is to make sure people smile.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it’s like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.