Sanda Balaban

“I think the revolutionary role of a writer is to make language that makes coalition possible, language that makes us see things in a new way.”
― Gloria Steinem via Lynn Gilbert, Particular Passions: Talks With Women Who Have Shaped Our Times

“Empathy is the most radical of human emotions.”
― Gloria Steinem

“In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the small harbingers of larger life to come, hard to hope until the outcome is secure. Spring teaches me to look more carefully for the green stems of possibility; for the intuitive hunch that may turn into a larger insight, for the glance or touch that may thaw a frozen relationship, for the stranger's act of kindness that makes the world seem hospitable again.”
― Parker J. Palmer, Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation

“There is no greater insight into the future than recognizing...when we save our children, we save ourselves”
― Margaret Mead