All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.

Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

There is not an issue that a woman cannot bring a perspective to.

I try hard to convince them it's important - but there's a history of discomfort with minorities voting in some parts of this country, so most especially the older people have to get accustomed to it.

I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.

Right after 9/11 there was a magazine with a cover of kids, mostly 12-14 year-olds, who were being trained for military combat. I thought that this had just gone too far.

There are still traces of discrimination against race and gender, but it's a lot different than when I started out. It just comes quietly, slowly, sometimes so quietly that you don't realize it until you start looking back.