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I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement.

I'm not sure I had a political career for the future anyway. I'm not sure that politics was what I wanted to spend my life doing.

The six people who had the biggest impact on my life were all women. Had I been sexist, my life would have been far less fulfilling.

I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.

I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.