The persistence of gender inequality is not just a failure of policy but a failure of imagination.

You know, in the Middle Ages, in England, when you met a very poor person, that person would be described as an "unfortunate" -- literally, somebody who had not been blessed by fortune, an unfortunate.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Reverence for truth is the highest praise for wisdom.