Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.

Adult women are able to make decisions about their own lives' course no less than men are.

The impact of all these restrictions is on poor women, because women who have means, if their state doesn't provide access, another state does. ... It makes no sense as a national policy to promote birth only among poor people.

My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.

I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.

When contemplated in its extreme, almost any power looks dangerous.

Whatever community organization, whether it's a women's organization, or fighting for racial justice ... you will get satisfaction out of doing something to give back to the community that you never get in any other way.