“Don't confuse having a career with having a life.”

“Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.”

“We are, all of us, exploring a world none of us understands...searching for a more immediate, ecstatic, and penetrating mode of living...for the integrity, the courage to be whole, living in relation to one another in the full poetry of existence. The struggle for an integrated life existing in an atmosphere of communal trust and respect is one with desperately important political and social consequences...Fear is always with us, but we just don't have time for it.-Commencement Speech, Wellesley 1969”

“I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”

“Women have always been the primary victims of war. Women lose their husbands, their fathers, their sons in combat.”

“First, we parents have to back up school authority and quit making excuses for our kids when they misbehave.”

“In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.”