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

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.

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.

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.

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

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