We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.

Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate.

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.

Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

When I hear traditional family values raised, I hear that effort once again to re-establish the man as head and master of his family. Who had the, not only the right, but the obligation to discipline his wife and children to keep them in line?

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.