Quotes about Change

No one ever got radicalized by being grateful.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but it is the least.

As feminism has changed academia by enlarging what is taught, academia has sometimes changed feminism.

Our current plight is not made inevitable by human nature. What once was could be again—in a new way.

The art of life is not controlling what happens, it's using what happens.

Change seems recognizable only after it's happened, like putting one's foot down for a familiar stair—and it's not there.

In retrospect, the second cause for delay makes less feminist sense: the long popularity of assertiveness training. Though most women needed to be more assertive (or even more aggressive, though that word was considered too controversial), many assertiveness courses taught women how to play the existing game, not how to change the rules.

The older I get, the more intensely I feel about the world around me.

Having lived his life in the belief that something great could be just around every corner, did he realize for the first time that no more corners could be turned?

That conflict follows politics as night follows day.

every trip, my pockets full of scribbled notes about new events. Altogether I might never have had the will or the way to do any of the things that matter most to me, had it not been for just being Out There. Taking to the road—by which I mean letting the road take you—changed who I thought I was. The road is messy

Between what is and what could be?