This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.