Power in this country is often like hemophilia; it passes through women and then men get it.

... the art of politics is to be ahead of your time--about six months will do it. Any more than that, and people forget you were there.

We all have good instincts unless they're beaten out of us or shamed out of us in childhood.

The belief that women should control our own bodies may be a majority belief, but the minority that believes otherwise is against not only safe and legal abortions but contraception and even sex education.

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style.

I just think that culturally, women - we're all human beings - but at least we don't have our masculinity to prove.

Too much of our lives corresponds to the 'lost-wallet' theory of life. You lose something, spend a long time finding it, and then feel grateful to be back where you started.