Neither of us entered marriage thinking it wouldn't be a strain. Life has strains in it, and he's the person I want to strain with.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

When the woman is getting paid drastically less than the male, that whole family is impacted.

There's a ripple effect in being underpaid for women. Ten thousand women are turned down every day for domestic abuse shelters. Part of domestic abuse is often economic suppression; the male might take your paycheck every week and never give you money or allow you to work because he's too jealous.

There are so many issues that impact women. When we talk about prison reform, for example, women were [once] sterilized in women's prisons. When they were giving birth, they were asked to sign paperwork but they weren't even completely conscious of what they were signing. That sounds like something that would never happen in America, but it was happening, not just in America, but in [California], one of the most progressive states in the United States.

There's no doubt that there's a struggling in birth, and a beauty and a horror and fear and joy too.

Women have more rights, and women do have their own power in the world.