Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, economic, political, and ecological crisis - a global nervous breakdown! Our struggle is about creating sustainable lives and attainable dreams.

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.

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.

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around.

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

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.