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

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So, if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, just wait.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren’t, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

There is a naive belief that injustice only had to be pointed out in order to be cured.

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

Behave like everything you do matters.

What would happen if even one generation were raised with respect and without violence?

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

By the year 2000 we will, I hope, raise our children to believe in human potential, not God.

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

The future depends entirely on what each of us does every day; a movement is only people moving.

Rich People plan for three generations Poor people plan for Saturday night

I have me brave women who are exploring the outer edge of human possibility, with no history to guide them, and with a courage to make themselves vulnerable that I find moving beyond words.

Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Power can be taken, but not given. The process of the taking is empowerment in itself.

Imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.

To appreciate the sun, you gotta know what rain is.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

You have two choices: You can make a living, or you can design a life.

Nothing in life has any meaning except the meaning we give it.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.