We can no more create the perfect environment for our children than we can create perfect children.

If my own current husband was suddenly a stay-at-home dad, it would be emasculating. That would be hard for me.

What the economy requires now is a whole different set of skills: You need intelligence, you need an ability to sit still and focus, to communicate openly to be able to listen to people and to operate in a workplace that is much more fluid than it used to be. Those are things that women do extremely well.

One way the Tea Party has benefited female candidates - and the conservative movement generally - is by consciously steering clear of social issues.

It's a fact that within the space of a few decades, women have achieved a massive shift in the role they play - in the way they act in public, and in the way they have conquered areas of the working world that were until recently considered a man's domain.

Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.

Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.