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

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.

In 1989, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that minority set-aside programs in municipal contracts were unconstitutional. The court wondered if there were proof that people of color even want to receive municipal contracts.

Just as the Supreme Court has said that women have the right to choose whether or not to be parents, men should also have that right.

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

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.