Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it.

Our children should learn the general framework of their government and then they should know where they come in contact with the government, where it touches their daily lives and where their influence is exerted on the government. It must not be a distant thing, someone else's business, but they must see how every cog in the wheel of a democracy is important and bears its share of responsibility for the smooth running of the entire machine.

Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it.

I wonder if one of the penalties of growing older is that you become more and more conscious that nothing is very permanent.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.