Apathy is the self-defense of the powerless.

If family violence teaches children that might makes right at home, how will we hope to cure the futile impulse to solve worldly conflicts with force?

Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

If the Richter scale could measure human calamities, the loss of a child would register a ten.

Children's liberation is the next item on our civil rights shopping list.

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.

Control is a big issue when you're sick. It's the first thing you lose - other losses come later.