Tell my daughter Elizabeth -- no! Tell all my daughters, everywhere, in all the ages yet to come. Tell them how I died, and why. And tell them to remember this: the future is unwritten. Know your rights.

I never thought it would end like this. I never thought he would leave me without saying goodbye.

War does not answer war, war does not finish war. The only ending is peace.

Before anything else I was a woman who was capable of passion and who had a great need and a great desire for love.

You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.

For he loved her and he understood that a woman cannot always live as a man. He understood that she cannot always think as he thought, walk as he walked, breathe the air that he took in. She would always be a different being from him, listening to a different music, hearing a different sound, familiar with a different element.

the bird sings as if to say that delight is easy, for those who desire it