Not the church, not the state; women must choose their fate. -- National Organization for Women More money is put into prisons than into schools. That, in...
It strikes me as being morally repulsive and intellectually absurd that people die of want in a world of surplus. -- Bob Geldof Our air, water, soil, forests,...
If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's...
The trouble with piling lies on top of lies is that we can't even agree on facts anymore. I read the right-wing commentators, and it's not that we're not on...
The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and those who are...
I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is. I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me...
The right wing attacks on Cindy Sheehan -- desperate, pathetic, and grasping at straws -- expose much less about their target than about the attackers. I mean,...
Creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention in the origin of life or of species are not science because they are not...
America, once famous for its can-do attitude, now has a can't-do government that makes excuses instead of doing its job. And while it makes those excuses,...
When we look back at Katrina, we may see that the greatest savagery was that of our public officials. -- Rebecca Solnit You can't govern if you don't believe...
Constant testing will no more address the problems with our educational system than constantly putting an overweight person on the scale will cure obesity. --...
Whatever is done to children, they are likely to do to society. -- Gloria Steinem The Bible doesn't mention abortion even once. . . . That so many Christians...
That scraping noise you hear? It's the sound of sheepish voters creeping out to the garage late at night, furtively removing "Bush- Cheney 2004" bumperstickers...
As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil they set out to destroy. --...
Over the past four years, our nation has taken on many of the same characteristics of an unsupervised schoolyard, where the majority rules and that group often...
I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned and an...
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided. -- Montesquieu If we don't fight hard enough for the things we...
Watergate's dirty tricks were mainly prompted by the ruthless desire to crush the political competition at any cost . . . but this administration has upped the...
Who's the Girlie-Man Now? -- Robert Scheer, to Arnold Schwarzenegger on the defeat of all of his statewide referenda True compassion is more than flinging a...
I'm not anti-Bush; I'm anti-Bush behavior. In other words, I'm against cheating, greed, cruelty, racism, imperialism, religious fundamentalism, treason, and...
I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took...
Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think. -- Margaret Cho If you're looking to defraud, delude, double cross, dupe, embezzle, ...
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. -- Henry David Thoreau I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying...
I think it's crazy for us to play games with our children's future. We know what's happening to the climate, we have a highly predictable set of consequences...
Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business. The dealings of my trade were...
Go to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the...
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? -- Rabbi Hillel The fundamental conflicts in human life...
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -- Groucho Marx Beware when you fight a dragon, lest you become a dragon. -- Friedrich...
I belong to a generation of working mothers who traded depression for stress. -- Ellen Goodman Any President who maintains that he is above the law - and ...
A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us. -- Franz Kafka We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war. --...
