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What I said was that in a democratic society, people must be permitted to make their choices and that the choices of women should not be subordinate to the choices of men, otherwise women are less than equal, are second-class citizens.

Women rule men's lives - every decision a man makes is based on a woman.

The state controlling a woman would mean denying her full autonomy and full equality.

The sanctity of a woman's right to control her own destiny is a moral force of its own... I came to realize that the question of choice is to be answered, not by the state, but by the individual.

One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Men and women have roles - their roles are different, but their rights are equal.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

I just think, as women, we have to give ourselves room to be individuals. So when a woman makes a decision for herself, we as women shouldn't set those hardcore boundaries for another woman. Just like we don't want men setting hardcore boundaries for us.

I think that a woman's right to choose should be protected. I think it should be protected from physical conduct that prevents that right to choose from being freely exercised.

In the adjustment of the new order of things, we women demand an equal voice; we shall accept nothing less.