I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.

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

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

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 Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.

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.

Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream.