You should always own a black dress because no one ever remembers a black dress.

I could never say in the morning, "I have a headache and cannot do thus and so". Headache or no headache, thus and so had to be done.

The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters.

The very next thing you need to be doing is the thing that terrifies you the most.

A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected.

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!

The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had.