Imperfect though it may be, the Beijing Platform for Action is the strongest statement of consensus on women's equality, empowerment and justice ever produced by governments.

The test of whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes

If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century -- and the economy -- around.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

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

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.