There's something almost adolescent about Whitman's paean to everything that was and remains good about America.

I wanted to cry, but I realized that I was too old for that. I would be a woman soon and I would have to learn how to live with a divided heart.

Why did I not know that birth is the pinnacle where women discover the courage to become mothers?

The more a daughter knows the details of her mother's life [...] the stronger the daughter.

Egypt loved the lotus because it never dies. It is the same for people who are loved.

My early childhood was spent in Newark, New Jersey, but my family moved to Denver when I was 12.

on the day that the intlligence and talents of women are fully honored and employed, the human community and the planet itself will benefit in ways we can only begin to imagine.