Depriving a parent of parental status is as devastating as a criminal conviction.

The emphasis must be not on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

Reading is the key that opens doors to many good things in life. Reading shaped my dreams, and more reading helped me make my dreams come true.

It's great to be in the position of asking questions and not having to answer questions.

Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

Members of the legislature, people who have run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed