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

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

More than 10,000 ballots in Miami-Dade County have been rejected by some machine without any opportunity for a human being to take a look. That is just not right.

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

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

My answer to those who oppose my appointment as CEO is that this is really a decision of the YWCA. They want to strengthen their grassroots to advocate on behalf of women's and children's empowerment and ending racism.

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