No country that permits firearms to be widely and randomly distributed among its population - especially firearms that are capable of wounding and killing human beings - can expect to escape violence, and a great deal of violence.

From a hundred cultures, [there is] one culture which does what no culture has ever done before-gives a place to every human gift.

Injustice experienced in the flesh, in deeply wounded flesh, is the stuff out of which change explodes.

I had my father's mind, but he had his mother's mind. Fortunately, his mother lived with us and so I early realized that intellectual abilities of the kind I shared with my father and grandmother were not sex-linked.

It is of very doubtful value to enlist the gifts of a woman into fields that have been defined as male; it frightens the men, unsexes the women, and muffles and distorts the contribution women could make.

Home, I learned, can be anywhere you make it. Home is also the place to which you come back again and again.

And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.