“Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.”
“Because women’s liberation is a movement of the powerless for the powerless, its attraction is not immediately clear to the powerless, who feel they need alliance with the powerful to survive.”
“The women of today are the thoughts of their mothers and grandmothers, embodied, and made alive. They are active, capable, determined and bound to win. They have one thousand generations back of them … Millions of women, dead and gone are speaking through us today.”
“So I grew up feeling that I wasn’t good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one’s perfect, we’re not meant to be perfect. We’re meant to be complete. But it’s hard to be complete if you’re trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.” ” And if you don’t own your strength… Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who… “Who’s the leader? Who’s the smart one?” Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.”
“A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.”
“To conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.”
“You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.”
“Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.”
“Your time is limited so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.”
