The question was asked, how can you be a mother and a congresswoman? I said, I have a brain, I have a uterus and they both work.

We have to tell the American public that they're missing the boat, that they have to get into writing and reading. Not only that, but books won't crash in the year 2000.

I always preferred having wings to having things.

I was and am, like many women, both pro-life and pro-choice.

The genius of the Republicans has been how they figured out how to so polarize the middle class that we vote against our own best interests.

It's really funny if two women stand on the House floor. There are usually at least two men who go by and say, 'What is this, a coup?' They're almost afraid to see us in public together.

Taxing Women is a must-have primer for any woman who wants to understand how our current tax system affects her family's economic condition. In plain English, McCaffery explains how the tax code stacks the deck against women and why it's in women's economic interest to lead the next great tax rebellion.