I just want to be remembered as someone who wanted people to think free and wanted people to be free, whether it's at the end of the day, or at the end of the mortal coil.
Greater diversity drives better business results.
If it comes down to your ethics vs. a job, choose ethics. You can always find another job.
People say to me, 'Has being a woman helped or hindered your career?' And the answer is yes.
I love what's going on these days with these powerful women who are really working to make a difference.
If you haven't had a major fail in your career - face-plant level - you aren't trying hard enough.
If a woman is making $85,000 a year, putting aside 20% of her income, putting it in a bank, earning very little. . . Over the course of her life vs. investing, this can cost her $1. 5 million, $2 million, $2. 5 million. Life changing amounts.
My general attitude toward life when I first get up is of deep suspicion, verging on hatred. . . . I am simply basted together until after breakfast.
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every other kind of discipline except that of narrow means -- from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.
We spend our lives trying to unlock the mystery of the universe, but there was a Turkish prisoner, Bahá’u’lláh, in Akka, Palestine who had the Key.
I wonder if I don't give too much of myself to writing: I am always half where I am; the other half is feeding the furnace, kick-starting the heat of creativity. I am making love with someone but at the same time I'm noticing how this graceful hand across my belly might just fit in with the memory of lilacs in Albuquerque in 1974.