Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, thats where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, its easier to combine career and family.

If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.

Video games seem to be mostly a boy thing - viewed by young boys and created by big boys. I believe that if more videos games were created by women, the violence in these games - especially against women - would be rapidly toned down.

I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.

Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

When there is violence against any person in society, because he or she is different, it threatens us all. Only by speaking out are any of us safe.

Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.