One of our biggest problems in terms of effectiveness is that we have hopes, but our opposition has interests. We measure everything against our hopes, including politicians that we are voting for or choosing amongst. We don't measure up to our hopes ourselves.

It's not that women are less corruptible than men are, it's that women have had less chance to become corrupt.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

It would be a disaster to have Sarah Palin or Carly Fiorina in the White House, so it's not just a woman, but a woman who stands for the majority needs of women. It's not just getting a job for one woman, it's making life better for all women.

Unequal access to money and media plus bias, external and internalized, and male-dominant religions and illegality at the polls - all those are reasons for women's wildly unequal political power.

It's never to late for a happy childhood.

At my graduation, I thought we had to marry what we wished to become. Now you are becoming the men you once would have wished to marry.