Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

I find it profoundly symbolic that I am appearing before a committee of fifteen men who will report to a legislative body of one hundred men because of a decision handed down by a court comprised of nine men--on an issue that affects millions of women.... I have the feeling that if men could get pregnant, we wouldn't be struggling for this legislation. If men could get pregnant, maternity benefits would be as sacrosanct as the G.I. Bill.

Other than life experience, nothing left a deeper imprint on my formative self than the movies.

Before devising any blueprint that includes the assumption of Having It All, we need to ask ... Why do we need Everything?

Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

Although Freud said happiness is composed of love and work, reality often forces us to choose love or work.

As the mother of a son, I do not accept that alienation from me is necessary for his discovery of himself. As a woman, I will not cooperate in demeaning womanly things so that he can be proud to be a man. I like to think the women in my son's future are counting on me.