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

I have never believed in the impossible.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

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.

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

The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.

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.