When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

[On an epitaph for herself:] Under here, we're all equal.

It's not my fault if the media and the public are more interested in Tiger Woods than in women farm workers.

Do feminists have a sense of humor? Yes.

I have been the victim of many of the injustices that women who are my clients have had. That is how I understand how this is impacting their lives economically, psychologically, often physically. It's all personal. For me, if one woman is denied her rights, we're all being denied our rights.

I have represented people in book deals.

When I graduated from the University of Pennsylvania I had a baby in one arm, a diploma in the other and I didn't know where I was going in life.