You are your own scriptwriter and the play is never finished, no matter what your age or position in life.
I'll be happy if the last thing they say about me after I die is that I made a difference.
We sought justice because equal pay for equal work is an American value. That fight took me ten years. It took me all the way to the Supreme Court. And, in a 5-4 decision, they stood on the side of those who shortchanged my pay, my overtime, and my retirement just because I am a woman.
Some of you may know my story: How for nineteen years, I worked as a manager for a tire plant in Alabama. And some of you may have lived a similar story: After nearly two decades of hard, proud work, I found out that I was making significantly less money than the men who were doing the same work as me.
Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.
There's nothing I wouldn't do, no matter how dirty or hard.
Because women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar men make. Those pennies add up to real money.
As my family and I have worked through the grieving process, I've said all along. . . that it may very well be that that process, by the time we get through, it, closes the window on mounting a realistic campaign for president that it might close.
People who want alternative information have to try so hard to find it.
The further left you go, the meaner the spirit
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.