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...
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...
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...
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...
But her emails! —the internet, 2017
In the bible it says you have to forgive seventy times seven. I want you all to know, I'm keeping a chart.
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.
I wish so badly we were a country where a candidate who said, My story is the story of a life shaped by and devoted to the movement for women’s liberation would be cheered, not jeered. But that’s not...
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.
The coldest peace is better than the warmest war.
When you are in a common boat, cross the river peacefully together.
Just keep going. No feeling is final. —Rainer Maria Rilke
. .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured.
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...
The Puritan witch hunts may be long over, but something fanatical about unruly women still lurks in our national subconscious.
When any barrier falls in America, for anyone, it clears the way for everyone.
That was some weird shit, George W. reportedly said with characteristic Texas bluntness. I couldn’t have agreed more.
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