I am now concerned with women's issues in a different way: women from Afghanistan, from Cambodia.
African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.
With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
Through persistent dedication, Susan B. Anthony, and other remarkable leaders, women were finally granted the right to vote in 1920.
The Women of the Storm made a big difference for me, because it really put some real-life faces with the situation, and not just politicians.
In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.
For a man to strike any women is most brutal, and I, as well as everyone else, think this far worse than any attempt to shoot, which, wicked as it is, is at least more comprehensible and more courageous.
What I find is with all due deference to - deference to our male colleagues, that women's styles tend to be more collaborative.
It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.
As I visited the various neighborhoods in the campaign, I learned fast that it's a mistake to think that all of the wisdom and possible solutions to our problems are available only in this building.
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious congregation. Study the Bible or other ancient works of wisdom.
Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
Being seventy is not a sin.
Age is not important unless you're a cheese.
Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
Study hard, but party harder.
Ridicule is the best test of truth.
There's no such thing as a partisan base.
Conformity to the present is invisibility to the future.
