The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale.

Egalitarian policies are the best way to unite and empower people, and are also a necessary counterweight to the sometimes detrimental influence of market forces.

A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.