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.

Men's reproduction isn't regulated by the state -- and it shouldn't be. Neither should women's.

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

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.

The influence of one's parents is powerful and permanent.

I have never believed in the impossible.

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