“Without leaps of the imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning” 

“Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.” 

“Anybody can be with you when you’re right, but only friends are with you when you mess up.” 

“There is history in what is dismissed as prehistory.” 

“the model for the U.S. Constitution was not ancient Greece but the Iroquois Confederacy. Then,” 

“As with all inferior things, this part of the city was given an adjective while the rest stole the noun.” 

“You didn’t leave your party. Your party left you. Forget about party labels. Just vote on the issues and for candidates who support equality.” 

“I could leave—because I could return. I could return—because I knew adventure lay just beyond an open door. Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

“It also reminds me of an organizing principle: Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“hate generalizes, love specifies” 

“Sometimes when I'm in the midst of all this, I can hear my mother saying, 'Democracy is just something you must do every day, like brushing your teeth.” 

“It's important for someone who could play the game - and win - to say: 'the game isn't worth shit.” 

“We are so different, yet so much the same.” 

“Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.” 

“The driver, an old Irish woman, the only such cabbie I’ve ever seen, turned to us at a traffic light and said the immortal words, “Honey, if men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament!” 

“What we’re told about this country is way too limited by generalities, sound bites, and even the supposedly enlightened idea that there are two sides to every question. In fact, many questions have three or seven or a dozen sides.” 

“Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

“It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” 

“Always ask the turtle.” 

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

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

“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.”

“A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.”