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

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

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.

In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race.

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.

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.