I know that it's very dispiriting for people in their twenties, who expected to graduate from college, get their own apartments, get a job, and move forward with their lives, and in fact are still now living with Mom and Dad, which is challenging for all involved.

The truth about your own life is not always easy to accept, and sometimes hasn't even occurred to you.

So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history tells us that whenever things start to move too fast, whenever progress makes people feel a little breathless, one of the go-to spots that government, that the ruling powers that society goes to is to try to repress women.

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

[President Johnson] had the political will to say that having one in five Americans living in the kind of abject conditions their fellow citizens associated with Third World countries and the novels of Dickens was as dangerous as any battlefield enemy.

I once wanted to be a personage. Now I am comfortable being a person.

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.