Quotes About Change

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all." Dave Barry

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

But, she fancied, she would not be able to be really unintelligent again, not even if she tried; so much having happened to her.

So, I became a chameleon ... [a]nd after a while I hardly knew what I really felt and thought because I became so good at adapting.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.

I was so busy enjoying the change in you, I didn't notice it in myself.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

If you say, I'm for equal pay, that's a reform. But if you say. I'm a feminist, that's a transformation of society.

If the shoe doesn't fit, must we change the foot?

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.

Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

Don't think about making women fit the world -- think about making the world fit women." 

no one ever got radicalized by being grateful

When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.

YOU CANNOT THINK YOURSELF INTO RIGHT LIVING. YOU LIVE YOURSELF INTO RIGHT THINKING. —Native Elders

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

That's why, if I had to name the most important discovery of my life, it would be the portable community of talking circles; groups that gather with all five senses, and allow for consciousness to change.

The word 'still' has entered my life. People say to me, 'You're still traveling, you're still wearing blue jeans.

To transform inequality in the outside world, we have to start inside the home. We have to get rid of the old idea that what happens to men is political, and therefore subject to change, but what happens to women is cultural, and therefore can't, or shouldn't, be changed.

When the past dies, we mourn for the dead. When the future dies, we mourn for ourselves.

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