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

Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

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.

The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.

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

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.