There is always one true inner voice. Trust it.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

Women can be vivacious. We are allowed more varieties of facial expression and gestures. Men must be rocklike.

There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror.

Women must have seats at the table because peace is too crucial to be left only to the politicians or only to the male half of our world.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.