"We are still living in a patriarchal society, and we have to fight against it every day."

"Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, the law must be made to serve justice."

"I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know."

"We tend to forget that every revolution or social change is like a tree — it grows from the bottom up, not the top down. However small it may seem to begin, that does not matter because it will grow."

"When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on."