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.

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

Power is the ability not to have to please.

I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.

This is the power of the powerful to define, to structure, to say, 'This is the way the world works.' It's enormous power. Among the powers of the weak, I think the first one is the power not to believe the powerful.

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.

Love between women is seen as a paradigm of love between equals, and that is perhaps its greatest attraction.