Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

Testifying has helped me understand that one individual's behavior and actions make a difference. That my actions are important to people other than myself

I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.

I work every day to live up to my mother's model. She was a very proud woman. And she really prepared me to go off into the world as a proud daughter.

I became the messenger who had to be killed

I did what my conscience told me to do, and you can't fail if you do that.

I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.