Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the chief reason for this is that it is ruled by a small group of old men.

You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas.

There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.

Women must become revolutionary. This cannot be evolution but revolution.

Laws will not eliminate prejudice from the hearts of human beings. But that is no reason to allow prejudice to continue to be enshrined in our laws - to perpetuate injustice through inaction.

To label family planning and legal abortion programs "genocide" is male rhetoric, for male ears.

The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, 'It's a girl.'