My days are jam-packed with carpools, classroom assistance, tending to chickens, dogs and seven acres of olive trees!

Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.

We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.

My daughters, your daughters, our daughters deserve safety, protection, and the freedom to make their own choices about their personal lives and their physical selves.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I grew up on antibiotics. Every ailment - sore throats, earaches, flus - warranted a trip to the doctor and in most cases some kind of prescription.