It used to be said that this country was a child-centered one. Nothing could be further from the truth. Children have been our lowest priority, both in economic and emotional spending.

Clearly no one knows what leadership has gone undiscovered in women of all races, and in black and other minority men.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.

The act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

If you love your work, I'm not sure you have hobbies. I try to say no to things that other people could do and only say yes to things that only I could do.

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.