imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Most women are one man away from welfare.

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Like art, revolutions come from combining what exists into what has never existed before.

We choose to be writers because we don't want to talk.

Self-esteem starts out as a personal blessing, but it becomes nothing less than an evolutionary force.

I think that part of everybody's success is due to their looks, but it just works in different ways. If you're whatever society calls attractive, then people say that you got ahead because of your looks-especially if you're a woman. If you're whatever society says is not attractive, then they say you got ahead because you're compensating, you couldn't get a man or whatever. So everybody pays the same penalty for the fact that women are assessed for their outsides rather than for what's in our heads and our hearts.