A child's first school is the mother's lap.

I need no financial aid. I fight the Shah with a pen and a sheet of paper and, if I needed help, my nation will help me.

From the viewpoint of human rights, there is no difference between men and women because both are human and women can decide about their own destinies just lik…

I would rather be called servant than leader. Leadership is not the issue, service is topical. Islam has made it incumbent on us to serve.

As the little boy said when asked if he wanted to be a lawyer like his mother, 'Oh no, that's women's work.' (Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions)

My mother made me a scientist without ever intending to. Every other Jewish mother in Brooklyn would ask her child after school: So? Did you learn anything tod…

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that thank Heaven nobody is reporting in this fashion on u…