I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side.

I have risked everything to tell the truth. Tell the truth

I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full.

People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world.

jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair.