Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Whoever is providing leadership needs to be as fresh and thoughtful and reflective as possible to make the very best fight.

Until the day arrives when all women decide that our rights are not negotiable, our future choices will not be secure.

Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.

I have never believed in the impossible.

I think we have deluded ourselves into believing that people don't know that abortion is killing. So any pretense that abortion is not killing is a signal of our ambivalence, a signal that we cannot say yes, it kills a fetus.

My mother taught me a lot of things, but they had big presuppositions built in - like her expectation that I'd be a missionary nurse in a religious order.