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.

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

We're going to have to look very seriously at what we're doing right or wrong because we just keep losing.

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.

I'm not the only one who feels the sting of continually losing.

I said we needed to organize women around the world to push peace.

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