My father was the Jewish half of the family, yet it was my mother who taught me to have pride in that tradition.

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it.

we are the women our parents warned us against, and we are proud

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

They're all qualities wrongly called feminine: attention to detail, patience, empathy. I don't have children, but I was raised as a female to have those qualities because they're perceived as feminine. Until men are raised with those qualities, too, they won't have the full circle of human qualities.

The voting booth is the only place that a pauper equals a billionaire, and any woman equals any man.