When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box.
Don’t worry about your background, whether it’s odd or ordinary, use it, build on it.
An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.
Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described – and will be, after our deaths – by each of the family members who believe they know us.
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
Economic systems are not value-free columns of numbers based on rules of reason, but ways of expressing what varying societies believe is important.
We feel very celebratory and positive that we have created a voyage across the DMZ in peace and reconciliation that was said to be impossible.
If men menstruated, they would brag about how much and for how long.
I wouldn’t want to generalize, but we still do live in a society that’s sexist and racist and addicted to class and has the ridiculous idea that if you have money you’re smarter, which Donald Trump by himself should be able to disprove.
Everyone is unique and each experience is different.
It’s not that women are less corruptible than men are, it’s that women have had less chance to become corrupt.
It’s a big gift to be recognizable as part of something that matters to people, but that’s not the same as being responsible for something.
Most books are bought by women.
There’s no emotion more revolutionary than empathy.
If you really want to be lonely, get married.
There’s no greater gift than thinking that you had some impact on the world, for the better.
Society certainly encourages women to be victims in every way. I mean if we want approval, we have to sing the blues, even as singers we sing the blues.
A person who has experienced something is almost always far more expert on it than are the experts.
I am not now, and never have been, a girlfriend of Henry Kissinger.
No, I’ll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.