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

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.

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

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

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

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.