My roots are African. The birds I remember, the fruits I ate, the trees I climbed, they're African.

- Teresa Heinz

As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apa…

- Teresa Heinz

Water is necessary, and then generators, and then food, and then clothes.

- Teresa Heinz

When you're threatened, or something hard hits you, acknowledge it, embrace it. Don't pretend that you didn't get hurt - hurt, cry, think about it. A…

- Teresa Heinz

Political campaigns are the graveyard of real ideas and the birthplace of empty promises.

- Teresa Heinz

It's time that we acknowledge the wisdom women have acquired by managing the chaos of daily life. Women are realists, the glue that holds society tog…

- Teresa Heinz

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

- Teresa Heinz

My right to speak my mind, to have a voice, to be what some have called 'opinionated' is a right I deeply and profoundly cherish. My only hope is tha…

- Teresa Heinz

I learned something then. And I believe it still. There is a value in taking a stand, whether or not anybody may be noticing it, and whether or not i…

- Teresa Heinz