First ladies throughout our history have been expected to be adoring wives and perfect mothers.

A 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.

My 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?

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

I had already learned from more than a decade of political life that I was going to be criticized no matter what I did, so I might as well be criticized for something I wanted to do.

Without volunteers, we'd be a nation without a soul.

Do what you can to show you care about other people, and you will make our world a better place.