Once your children are grown up and have children of their own, the problems are theirs and the less the older generation interferes the better.

I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world.

Poor minds talk about people average minds talk about events great minds talk about ideas

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing.

One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail?