The state of the world today demands that women become less modest and dream/plan/act/risk on a larger scale.

The beginning point at both conferences must be that everything is a woman's issue. That means racism in a woman's issue, just as is anti-Semitism, Palestinian homelessness, rural development, ecology, the persecution of lesbians, and the exploitative practices of global corporations.

As a human rights issue, the effort to end violence against women becomes a government's obligation, not just a good idea.

Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more important to ask why there has been so little attention paid to women leaders over the years as well as why the styles of leading more often exhibited by women are particularly useful at this critical moment in history.

We do not need, and indeed never will have, all the answers before we act ... It is often through taking action that we can discover some of them.

There is no issue that is not a women's issue.

America is like an unfaithful love who promises us more than we got.