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.

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.

[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.

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

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

Exercise power by means of kindness, and you may be causing more damage than you could by cruelty. Neither approach is correct.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

I was at one time a football wife, and there is a certain level of bonding that happens between women who are the wives of football players.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

True, as unwisdom is the worst of ills

I don't wake up in the morning and say, wow I've got a great idea for a story. But I sit down, and I figure well, let's see.

You wags that judge by rote, and damn by rule.

I run Willow Management, which is the biggest agency for other short actors. We look after performers who are either under five feet and over seven feet tall.