Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

And of course we are familiar with the English common law rule of thumb that said a man could in fact use a stick no bigger than his thumb to discipline his wife and family.

Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.

Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.

When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.

I just have that sense this is the reason we got Sandra Day O'Connor on the Court in the first place is because Ronald Reagan was running for President.