I might want to do a hundred things in a given day, but I know I have to pick up my kids between 5 and 6. That is the most important thing. So I fit in everything else around that. I know what needs to be done, and then I know what I want to get done.

As a lawyer you never speak with emotion. It's about the precise facts.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

Unfortunately, our [american] workplace rules are stuck in the seventies, when, out of a block of 10 houses, in more than half of them the husband went to work and the wife stayed home. Now on that same block almost eight of the wives work. That's one reason why I want equal pay for equal work, and why affordable day care, early childhood education, and universal pre-K are so important to me.

My mother is a great hunter - she usually shoots our Thanksgiving turkey.

My hope is that in the future, women stop referring to themselves as 'the only woman' in their physics lab or 'only one of two' in their computer science jobs.

Hardworking men and women deserve not only job security, but also a paycheck when they need to take time off to care for a loved one.