Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

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.

Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.

We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion.

Abortion doesn't belong in the political arena. It's a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

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.