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.

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.

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.

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

Things doesn't always start out the way we want them to. It's how they end that's important.

Many people will try to Sell you a Dream, its Your place to let them know you Already have one!

Everyone has a right to his own course of action.

To translate poetry, one has to possess some art, at the very least the art of stylistic re-embodiment.

The things that'll make you fail I'll love always.

No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.

The most knowledgeable person is not necessarily the person who runs the government, nor the church, nor the business.

The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius.

I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.