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

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 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.

Well, I happen to believe all business is 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.

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

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