There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

I had met far more discrimination because I am a woman than because I am black.

We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically.

Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

Defeat should not be the source of discouragement, but a stimulus to keep plotting.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.