“Clinging to the past is the problem. Embracing change is the answer.”

I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make.

A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle.

Women are not going to be equal outside the home until men are equal in it.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons… but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

Each others’ lives are our best textbooks.

The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen’s skin.

So why is the sex barrier not taken as seriously as the racial one?

Whatever you want to do,do it now.

Being married is like having somebody permanently in your corner. It feels limitless, not limited.

Once we give up searching for approval we often find it easier to earn respect.

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

Any woman who chooses to behave like a full human being should be warned that the armies of the status quo will treat her as something of a dirty joke. That’s their natural and first weapon. She will need her sisterhood.

The story of women’s struggle for equality belongs to no single feminist nor to any one organization but to the collective efforts of all who care about human rights

Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It’s about making life more fair for women everywhere. It’s not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It’s about baking a new pie.

learning must travel the distance from head to heart.

Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.

A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination.

What is it you want to change? Your hair, your face, your body? Why? For God is in love with all those things and he might weep when they are gone.

The only time that any of us have to grow or change or feel or learn anything is in the present moment. But we’re continually missing our present moments, almost willfully, by not paying attention.

We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation

When everything in life gets so complicated it only takes a day to change it.

..This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

We all have a voice. If you take a stand, you could be changing someones life.