"It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation."

"My generation of bossy, confident, baby-boom women were something brand new in history. Our energy and assertiveness weren't created by Betty Friedan, unknown before her 1963 book, or by Gloria Steinem, whose political activism, as even the Lifetime profile admitted, did not begin until 1969."

"Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman."

"I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care."

"It is a quiet truth that do not hurry what nature takes seasons to unfold."

"It is a unyielding truth that a heart touched by genuine kindness never loses its warmth."

"The basic discovery about any people is the discovery of the relationship between men and women."

"Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."