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.

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

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they gave us a decade, the Decade of the Woman. I said at the time, who knows, if we behave they may let us into the whole thing. Well, we didn't behave and here we are.

Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one.