"[On being told by a horse show spectator that she looked like Princess Anne:] I think I'm a bit better-looking than she is."

“We must continue to unite in sisterhood to turn our tears into triumph. There is no time to rest until our world achieves wholeness and balance, where all men and women are considered equal and free.”

Source : "Acceptance Speech: Liberian Noble Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Roberta Gbowee Talks About the Struggles of African Women". face2faceafrica.com. December 12, 2011.

“You care enough, that you want your life to be fulfilled in a living way, not in a painting way, not in a writing way...you really do want it to be involving in living, corresponding with other living objects, moving, changing, that kind of thing.”

Source : "Edie : Girl On Fire". Book by David Weisman and Melissa Painter, 2006.

“Standing in the middle of nowhere, wondering how to begin. Lost between tomorrow and yesterday, between now and then.”

“I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11”

“Sarah Buckley is precious, because she is bilingual. She can speak the language of a mother who gave birth to her four children at home. She can also speak like a medical doctor. By intermingling the language of the heart and the scientific language she is driving the history of childbirth towards a radical and inspiring new direction.”

“Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.”

“There aren't any hard women, only soft men.”

Source : "Fictional character: Hannie Caulder". "Hannie Caulder", www.imdb.com. 1971.

“If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.”