The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

Let woman's claim be as broad in the concrete as the abstract. We take our stand on the solidarity of humanity, the oneness of life, and the unnaturalness and injustice of all special favoritism, whether of sex, race, country, or condition. If one link of the chain is broken, the chain is broken.

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Harriet Tubman was not our great-grandmother for nothing.