You cannot barter security for freedom, or freedom for security.

men never would share power with women willingly. If we wanted it, we would have to take it.

Character isn't inherited.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

When a marriage works, nothing on earth can take its place

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs. I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.