The Establishment Is Made Up Of Little

Women Have Been Trained To Speak Softly And Carry A Lipstick. Those Days Are Over.

I've Been Described As A Tough And Noisy Woman, A Prize Fighter, A Man-hater, You Name It. They Call Me Battling Bella, Mother Courage, And A Jewish Mother With More Complaints Than Portnoy. There Are Those Who Say I'm Impatient, Impetuous, Uppity, Rude, Profane, Brash, And Overbearing. Whether I'm Any Of Those Things, Or All Of Them, You Can Decide For Yourself. But Whatever I Am -- And This Ought To Be Made Very Clear -- I Am A Very Serious Woman.

I Am Not Elevating Women To Sainthood, Nor Am I Suggesting That All Women Share The Same Views, Or That All Women Are Good And All Men Bad.

Women Will Not Simply Be Mainstreamed Into The Polluted Stream. Women Are Changing The Stream, Making It Clean And Green And Safe For All - Every Gender, Race, Creed, Sexual Orientation, Age, And Ability.

The Inside Operation Of Congress - The Deals, The Compromises, The Selling Out, The Co-opting, The Unprincipled Manipulating, The Self-serving Career-building - Is A Story Of Such Monumental Decadence That I Believe If People Find Out About It They Will Demand An End To It.