My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Lance Loud

In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

Adrienne Rich

Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.

Lucretia Mott

It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.

Bonnie Raitt

The public must and will be served.

William Penn

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

Mark Twain

Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go.

Hermann Hesse

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.

Billie Holiday

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.

Aleister Crowley

I guess we decided to make a new record 3 years ago when Nancy was done scoring for Almost Famous.

Ann Wilson

All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

W. C. Fields

Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway.

Elbert Hubbard, 1912