If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Unless I am what I am and feel what I feel - as hard as I can and as honestly and truly as I can - then I am nothing. Let me feel guilty ... don't try to educate me ... don't protect me.

a problem that presents itself as a dilemma carries an unfortunate prescription: to argue instead of act.

We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.

The idea of power as a possession, whose asset can be banked and drawn on when needed, comes easy to a society whose rules grow out of the methods of finance capitalism.

those who despair of life are not long for it.