The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind. |
The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education. |
The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed. |
The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood. |
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No b |
Then I went back to my mother when I was 13 and she was ready for me. |
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it. |
There is an amazing something in the American psyche which speaks about courage, and it says, 'Yes I can,' ... Yes, we will overcome it all because we have the spirit to do so. |
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. |
There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. |
There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity. |
There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. |
This conference — of, for and about women — is, in itself, a rainbow in the clouds. When numerous women come together and show that they care, not only for themselves but also for each other, that is the occasion when a rainbow is shining down on somebody else. |
this is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing. |
Those of us who have gathered here, ... we owe something from this minute on, so this gathering is not just another footnote on the pages of history. |