Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I am a daughter, a sister, a wife and a mother. I am a friend of women and I am their advocate.

I'm proud that today, at 43 years old, I've come to value the aging process and focus on inner rather than outer beauty.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

Many women who have anorexia put their hearts in a compromised situation.

I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for women's equality and liberation.