“Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.”

I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.

We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.

This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.

The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.

I always had a decent sense of outrage.

Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.

Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.

Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.

Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.

Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.

I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.

In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

We need laws that protect everyone – men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion…ah, persuasion.

They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.

Now I’ve come to such a mixed culture: America, Europe, South America, Africa. And the politics are changing everywhere all the time and becoming even more unpredictable.

Everything is art. Everything is politics.

The world is not changing if you don’t shoulder the burden of responsibility.

I think it was four years ago when my feelings were changing towards the industry.

I’m not oblivious to that connotation of changing careers, so I’m just going in and doing the job.

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn’t been born yet. It’s difficult.

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope?– You yourself must change it.

What we see, we see and seeing is changing