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

When I first became a lawyer, only 2% of the bar was women. People would always think I was a secretary. In those days, professional women in the business world wore hats. So I started wearing hats.

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.

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.