When I joined Bill Clinton's start-up presidential campaign in 1991, I was confident that women would play an ever more important role, but I never gave a minute's thought to what would happen if we won. When we did - and I became the first woman to serve as White House press secretary - it changed my life. But it didn't change the world.

Women have a lot of power in private life. There are many men who would say, 'Hey, women already rule my life.' But with women, more is more. The more there are, the more the world gets used to seeing them. We change the culture. We begin to expand options and lead and manage.

Having a sense of humor has served me more than it has hurt me - just in the sense that it has allowed me to keep my sanity.

To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

Women have to be the biggest champions in the world of other women's choices.

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.