One thing we know for sure is that change is certain. Progress is not. Progress depends on the choices we make today for tomorrow and on whether we meet our challenges and protect our values.
Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke
All of us face hard choices in our lives. Some face more than their share. We have to decide how to balance the demands of work and family. Caring for a sick child or an aging parent. Figuring out how...
I have a weakness for Pepperidge Farm Goldfish crackers and was delighted to find out that 55 goldfish were only 150 calories - not bad! One time, Liz brought something I hadn't tried before: Flavor B...
But her emails! —the internet, 2017
I’m often asked how I take the criticism directed my way. I have three answers: First, if you choose to be in public life, remember Eleanor Roosevelt’s advice and grow skin as thick as a rhinoceros. S...
. .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is how easy it is for some people to say horrible things about me when I’m not around, but how hard it is for them to look me in the eye and say it to my face.
I’m not jealous of my male colleagues often, but I am when it comes to how they can just shower, shave, put on a suit, and be ready to go. The few times I’ve gone out in public without makeup, it’s ma...
In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.
When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together.
When I said, You could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables, I was talking about well-documented reality. ... But too many of Trump’s core supporters do hold views...
The coldest peace is better than the warmest war.
The Puritan witch hunts may be long over, but something fanatical about unruly women still lurks in our national subconscious.
It was another example of a phenomenon I call the talking dog syndrome. Some people are still amazed that any woman (this includes Governors' wives, corporate CEOs, sports stars and rock singers) can...
Bhutto acknowledged the difficulties faced by women who were breaking with tradition and taking leading roles in public life. She deftly managed to refer both to the challenges I had encountered durin...
We are living in an interdependent world where what our children hear, see, feel, and learn will affect how they grow up and who they turn out to be.
Politics was reduced to its most tribal , us versus them, and them grew into a big list: blacks, Latinos, immigrants , liberals , city dwellers, you name it.
It hurts to be torn apart.
Women are seen favorably when they advocate for others, but unfavorably when they advocate for themselves.