“But I don’t pretend to be neutral on issues when I am not. I like the students to understand that most of us have a perspective, most thinking people do, but that it’s important to disclose one’s biases. I’m not trying to brainwash people, but I’m not going to present myself as neutral. I don’t think my students have any doubt where I stand on the Bill of Rights.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg

“Then also I think being an artist is a state of mind. There were a great many frustrations in my life, too. But the only thing I can say is that I was looking for harmony and I think my long suit was that I was able to remember things and externalize them. I wanted harmony within myself, so I externalized it in my work.” — Louise Nevelson

“In the back of my mind, deep down, I’ve always wanted to change sports. That’s the reason I started the Women’s Sports Foundation and King womenSports magazine. I enjoy creating new opportunities.” — Billie Jean King

“…cooking draws upon your every talent—science,

mathematics, energy, history, experience—and the more experience you have the less likely are your experiments to end in drivel and disaster. The more you know, the more you can create. There’s no end to imagination in the kitchen.”