the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.

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

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?

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.

Is a woman raped every three minutes or every six minutes? It is far too much, whatever it is.

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

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.