If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.

Women in leadership cannot cry without raising a storm of commentary.

If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

Those who speak up, those who use their connections, are more likely to succeed than those who sit and wait.

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.