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.

I cannot take every case that people ask me to take.

Because of my life experiences, I understand that I have an opportunity to help other women. I have the desire and the ability.

Why is it immoral to be paid for an act that is perfectly legal if done for free?

There still is a war on women in terms of politicians in Washington and the state legislatures trying to eliminate any rights we have fought to win and that the Supreme Court has afforded us.

I'm not interested in dating. I like being with my own best friend, me. Certain women, particularly older women, cannot believe I like going to a social event by myself. But I do.

I have represented people in book deals.