I am not a do-gooder. I am a revolutionary. A revolutionary woman.

Declare a truce and accept food as a life-giving friend.

Get over the feeling that the two words don’t go together - women and power. The fact is, if we don’t put the two together, and don’t understand how power changes complexion in the hands of women, then we’re not going to make it.

I would like to say something, not just to Vietnam veterans in New England, but to men who were in Vietnam, who I hurt, or whose pain I caused to deepen because of the things that I said or did. I was trying to help end the killing and the war, but there were times when I was thoughtless and careless about it and I'm...very sorry that I hurt them. And I want to apologize to them and their families.

Enjoyable does not necessarily mean easy.

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

The bravest soldiers aren't unafraid, but they're the ones who are able to harness their fear on behalf of courage.