I would not look to the U.S. Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in 2012.

The notion that it is improper to look beyond the borders of the United States in grappling with hard questions has a certain kinship to the view that the U.S. Constitution is a document essentially frozen in time as of the date of its ratification.

We have the oldest written constitution still in force in the world, and it starts out with three words, 'We, the people.'

The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

I was a proponent of the ERA. The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.