There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
Rosalynn CarterIf we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.
Rosalynn CarterA leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Rosalynn CarterIf you look at suicides, most of them are connected to depression. And the mental health system just fails them. It's so sad. We know what to do. We just don't do it.
Rosalynn CarterMy greatest disappointment in all the projects I worked on during the White House years was the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment to be ratified. ... Why all the controversy and why such difficulty in giving women the protection of the Constitution that should have been theirs long ago?
Rosalynn Carter