I have never cared too much what people say. What I am interested in is what they do.

Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.

Of my two `handicaps,' being female put more obstacles in my path than being black.

My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn't always discuss for reasons of political expediency.

As things are now, no one can tell to whom members of Congress are responsible, except that it does not often appear to be to the people. Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.

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

My God, what do we want? What does any human being want? Take away an accident of pigmentation of a thin layer of our outer skin and there is no difference between me and anyone else. All we want is for that trivial difference to make no difference.