“The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us” 

“Each others' lives are our best textbooks.” 

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Remember: "For want of a nail, the horseshoe was lost, for want of a horseshoe, the horse was lost, for want of a horse, the battle was lost, for want of a battle, the war was lost." This parable should be the mantra of everyone who thinks her or his vote doesn't count.” 

“Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.” 

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ” 

“This is no simple reform. It really is a revolution. Sex and race because they are easy and visible differences have been the primary ways of organizing human beings into superior and inferior groups and into the cheap labor on which this system still depends. We are talking about a society in which there will be no roles other than those chosen or those earned. We are really talking about humanism.” 

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.” 

“When humans are ranked instead of linked, everyone loses.” 

“I do not like to write - I like to have written.” 

“Women are always saying,"We can do anything that men can do." But Men should be saying,"We can do anything that women can do.”

“If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?” 

“One day an army of gray-haired women may quietly take over the Earth!” 

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.” 

“The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn but to unlearn.” 

“we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud” 

“A woman reading Playboy feels a little like a Jew reading a Nazi manual.” 

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.” 

“You're always the person you were when you were born," she says impatiently. "You just keep finding new ways to express it.” 

“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”