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

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

the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

I've been described as a tough and noisy woman, a prize fighter, a man-hater, you name it. They call me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, and a Jewish mother with more complaints than Portnoy. There are those who say I'm impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I'm any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am -- and this ought to be made very clear -- I am a very serious woman.

She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply

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

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.