The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.

I'm clearly not frightened of flying because I fly all the time, but every once in a while I do, as we all do, think, What if this plane goes down? And I think, Well, if I'm holding the hand of the person sitting next to me, then I'm holding everyone's hand.

God knows (She knows) that women try.

Most women are one man away from welfare.