I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Love doesn't always curl your toes sometimes it takes a bite right out of your soul.

The living water that never runs dry, The water of life, Lord, the saviour of the world.

The mind revels in conjecture. Where information is lacking, it will gladly fill in the gaps.

As an actor, you can't judge. A great actress from Spain said, "We, the actors, are lawyers of the characters we play. We have to defend them, no matter what."

A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need.

Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for the better in every possible dimension. It will bring great fulfilment

If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.

In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics.

We long for simplicity and ordinariness.

Art must not be concentrated in dead shrines called museums. lt must be spread everywhere – on the streets, in the trams, factories, workshops, and in the workers' homes.