The inside operation of Congress - the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building - is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

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

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

I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.