Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.

The family is the building block for whatever solidarity there is in society.

It's relatively easy to generate a lot of enthusiasm for Puget Sound in the short term. Sustaining the effort to clean it up is somewhat tougher.

Why argue about things you can't prove?

It occurred to me when I was thirteen and wearing white gloves and Mary Janes and going to dancing school, that no one should have to dance backward all their lives.

I have no hostility towards men. Some of my best friends are men. I married a man, and my father was a man.