I think the girl who is able to earn her own living and pay her own way should be as happy as anybody on earth. The sense of independence and security is very sweet.
It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.
Sometimes the dreams that come true are the dreams you never even knew you had.
Angels are spirits, but it is not because they are spirits that they are angels. They become angels when they are sent. For the name angel refers to their office, not their nature. You ask the name of this nature, it is spirit; you ask its office, it is that of an Angel, which is a messenger.
The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called God.
After all, the only thing that is going to save mankind is if enough people live their lives for something or someone other than themselves.
You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.
People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.
Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.
The best part of having two babies at once, a son and a daughter, is mostly everything. You're just having that feeling of love inside you all the time and motherhood is such a fulfilling place to be. I kind of wish it would have happened to me earlier in my life.
Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.
There can be no finer example of the inspiring powers of competition to shatter the status quo than Hungary's Judit Polgar.
We all understand situations where it's swim or drown. Sometimes we surprise ourselves when we start swimming and see how well we can do it.
Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God.
The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another
I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
