I should have the courage of my lack of convictions.
I was too worried about the grades and I should have been more worried about learning.
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them.
Being a healthy woman isn't about getting on a scale or measuring your waistline. We need to start focusing on what matters-on how we feel, and how we feel about ourselves.
I am desperate for change - now - not in 8 years or 12 years, but right now.
There's so much going on in the healthcare system that makes it difficult for women to really have a strong economic hold if insurance is always an issue.
We all grew up in communities with grandmothers who cooked two, three vegetables that you had to eat. There was no ifs, ands or buts about it. But that's because many of our grandparents, they had community gardens; there was the vegetable man that came around. There were many other resources that allowed them to have access. So it's not that people don't know or don't want to do the right thing; they just have to have access to the foods that they know will make their families healthier.
Forgive the person who has caused the most pain in your life and it will make you feel better.
Nothing precludes sympathy so much as a perfect indifference to it
It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.
I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.