I am happy to see that, increasingly, people care about farm workers. There is tremendous interest in where and how our food is grown.

Through that organization [Community Service Organization], I met Cesar Chavez. We had this common interest about farm workers. We ultimately left CSO to start the National Farm Workers Organization, which became the United Farm Workers. I was very blessed to have learned some of the skills of basic grassroots organizing from Mr. Ross and then be able to put that into practice in both CSO and the United Farm Workers.

Leadership is a choice one makes.

I think, if anything, my children are the ones who have sacrificed because I've had to too many times be absent from them. But, at the same time, they have lived very enriched lives and probably experienced things they wouldn't have if not for the movements. So, there are some rewards.

I was very fortunate to have known Fred Ross Sr., who was organizing the Community Service Organization (CSO) way back in the late 50's and early 60's. I was able to work with him.

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both feet.

A women's place in history has never been given the attention that it needs to be given, and that's why we have a lot of the misogyny in our society today.