There's a big gap between public opinion polls and the vote in Washington, in Congress. The majority consciousness has changed, and often that has made very clear, practical changes in our daily lives, but the centers of power are still not occupied, for the most part, by this new consciousness.

I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

It's not okay for a woman to be in control of her own body, her own reproductive system, much less of her life. There's opposition even to that. So passivity is rewarded as feminine.

I always trust the microcosm over the macrocosm.

Whenever one person stands up and says, “Wait a minute, this is wrong,” it helps other people do the same.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

An education is not a thing one gets, but a lifelong process.