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I would like to see the gay population get on board with feminism. It's a beautiful organisation and they've done so much. It seems to me a no-brainer.

I, personally, am trying to get more and more involved with the gay and lesbian movement, very much so.

I am going to sing lesbian love songs and support gay rights no matter what. The rest is public relations.

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its life.

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.

Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women's status in India.

Feminism is, I hope, a way to a better future for everyone who inhabits this world. Feminism should not be something that needs a seductive marketing campaign. The idea of women moving through the world as freely as men should sell itself.

We are not yet a society free of sexism, and this will continue to be an issue for all women candidates.

I look forward to the day when there are more women politicians accepted in their own right and not as 'women politicians.'

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.