"I can tell you I didn't feel good when I could not articulate properly. Getting my GED was important and I want other women to feel that"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about"

"The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men"

"To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea"

"It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for"

"If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies"

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

"At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil"

"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space"