“subject that got people aroused . . . was Who Owns America? . . . They had a chart going . . . filling in connections between the big local contractors and the steel companies and the city and county governments and the unions . . . and the downtown merchants. . . . They found they still did not know who owned obvious centers of power like the banks. They did not know who owned the local paper. Or the radio stations.”

“Sleeping together is a euphemism for people, but tantamount to marriage with cats.”

“Never doubt that you can change history. You already have.”

“My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.”

“A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done.”

“Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.”

“What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Connections are made slowly sometimes they grow underground.”

“Live as if you like yourself and it may happen.”

“The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real.”