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

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

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.

Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist.

When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else.

No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.