We need old friends to help us grow old and new friends to help us stay young.

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

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.

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

What I often say to people who are quick to say I’m not a feminist is if you think you’re not a feminist, give it all back.

When men are oppressed, it's a tragedy. When women are oppressed, it's tradition.

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