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

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

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

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

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