We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.

Change is vital, improvement the logical form of change.

Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'

I mean, if you didn't get it or if you didn't feel like you enjoyed it, sometimes that experience can change.

It took me so many years to move out. I'm definitely a bit of a Peter Pan, reluctant to grow up. It all seemed really nice at home-why change it? Part of me would prefer not to have any responsibility whatsoever.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.

I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend.

Don't manage - lead change before you have to.

Probably the most visible example of unintended consequences, is what happens every time humans try to change the natural ecology of a place.