If the career you have chosen has some unexpected inconvenience, console yourself by reflecting that no career is without them.

Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the community around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.

Reproductive freedom is a real danger for the patriarchy, because it means that women are empowered.

If adolescent pregnancy prevention is to become a priority, then our strategy, as advocates, must contain two key elements: civic engagement and education.

I will go to my grave regretting the photograph of me in an anti-aircraft carrier [actually, it was in an anti-aircraft gun emplacement, not a carrier], which looks like I was trying to shoot at American planes. [Actually, that was her intention in posing for the photograph the way she did.] It hurt so many soldiers. It galvanized such hostility. It was the most horrible thing I could possibly have done. It was just thoughtless.

Eat only when you are hungry-not because it is one o'clock or seven o'clock or whatever.

Stay curious, keep learning and keep growing. And always strive to be more interested than interesting.