"Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do. You can't stop the plane, you can't stop the storm, you can't stop time. So one might as well accept it …"

"I am not and never have been a man. I am a woman."

"The only way to get a man to do something is to tell him he's too old to do it."

"I don't think there's any difference between a man and a woman in politics, except that a woman has to work harder to prove herself."

"We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new tree is planted."