My own dream is that we discover that the NSA has been secretly keeping files on members of the National Rifle Association.

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.

You hear younger women say, 'I don't believe I'm a feminist. I believe women should have equal right and I believe in fighting for the rights of other women, but I'm certainly not a feminist. No, no, not that!' It's just a word. If you called it 'Fred' would it be better?

The middle of 'America's Women' is about the Civil War, and how women, black and white, confronted slavery and abolition. As in every other period of crisis, the rules of sexual decorum were suspended due to emergency.

Women are needed in the military because there aren't enough soldiers, and we're seeing more women serve.

Sarah Palin is an heir to the women's movement. She has not been constrained by gender. At no point in her life has she thought, 'I can't do that because I'm a woman.'