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

Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win.

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.

Some of us may just, in one-on-one conversations with our family, with our friends, over the back fence with our neighbors, talk about the reality of our lives and realize that we're not alone, that we have a right to be physically safe and emotionally safe in our own homes.

Here I am.... You get the parts of me you like and also the parts that make you uncomfortable. You have to understand that other people's comfort is no longer my job. I am no longer a flight attendant.

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

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.