The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

We have to work under the assumption that the things that we fought hard for to protect women will be under assault, and we have to bring all our creativity and our energy to bear to preserve those things, no matter who is in the White House.

The US government is like an ocean liner, not like a speed boat. It's harder to turn around than people might think.

Most of us have to think worst-case scenario.

I'm full of clichés - I was raised by a Southern black woman and they had a saying for everything.

There's a saying that you can't awaken somebody who's pretending to be asleep.

The worst thing we can do is to assume that the Electoral College [voting] resulting in the election of Donald Trump represents a mandate. It does not. He did not get the majority of the popular vote; that went to Hillary Clinton. That means those votes represent the consciousness of the nation, which is that abortion should be legal, that contraception and family planning are health issues and prevention, that a woman's right to reproductive privacy is the law of the land and should remain such.