“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.”
“If you put fences around people, you get sheep.”
“Self-improvement begins with self-acceptance. All of life, everything else, has led up to this. This is your work now. It is the final step. Go for it.”
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul, then the way it treats its children.”
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we had when we created them.”
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.”
“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”
“Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.”
“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”
“A snail could crawl the entire length of the Great Wall of China in 212 years, just slightly longer than the 200 years it will take for women to be equally represented in Parliament.”
