I am able to talk about my life in a way that helps other women - and men, but mostly women - understand their own life. I feel real proud of that.

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.

Our young people are assets to be cultivated and nurtured; let's begin treating them that way.

Someone once said that under the bell jar of compliance, the only thing that blooms is rage.

You can run the office without a boss, but you can't run an office without secretaries.

We cannot elect men to office who are afraid of premature evacuation.

Look what scares you in the face and try to understand it. Empathy is revolutionary.