That's not to say that women's priorities are better than men's. Rather when women are empowered when they can speak from the experience of their own lives they often address different previously neglected issues. And families and whole communities benefit.

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience because words make experience last.

Very often I've known people who wouldn't say a word to each other but they'd go to see movies together and experience life that way.

We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life and often find ourselves without experience despite our years.

No advance in wealth no softening of manners no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

In every case the environmental hazards were made known only by independent scientists who were often bitterly opposed by the corporations responsible for the hazards.

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college.

The dilemma of modern medicine and the underlying central flaw in medical education and most of all in the training of interns is the irresistible drive to do something anything. It is expected by patients and too often agreed to by their doctors in the face of ignorance.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

I add this that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.