Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know.

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.

If we can't preserve the privacy of our right to procreate, I can't imagine what rights we will be able to protect.

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

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.

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.