Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.
Individual advances turn into social change when enough of them occur.
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
There are a lot of words that I knew first as a reader, and I never put the pieces together in my brain. The word segue I thought was pronounced "seeg," I think until I went to college, which is horribly embarrassing.
When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.
There is no reason not to support energy exploration in ANWR.
My life's a sequel to a movie where the actors' names have changed.