During the 19th-century struggle for womens rights in America, many saw a competition between rights for black people and those for women.

We should cease thinking about men as the enemy of children and women.

In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.

During the Renaissance, women were not allowed to attend art school. Everyone asks, where are the great women painters of the Renaissance?

When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls athletics.

No matter what is happening in life or in the world - war, natural disaster, poor health, pain, the death of loved ones - if existence is filled with art, music and literature, life will be fulfilling, a joy.

After 'Roe v. Wade' - when the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 - I thought the national conversation about abortion and birth control would be over. It was not.