Equality rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood as it has been so tragically in our time it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
More countries have understood that women's equality is a prerequisite for development.
Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook and she still cooks and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
Earth Day 1970 was irrefutable evidence that the American people understood the environmental threat and wanted action to resolve it.
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.