If one group of people say a woman has a right to choose, I get queasy because I'm against abortion. I don't think a woman has a frivolous right to choose. What I don't want is a desperate woman to die in an illegal abortion.

A woman has a right to a safe, legal abortion. I've never wavered in that position since I was, like, eight years old and realized what was going on when I heard my mother arguing with people about the issue.

The movement across Canada to fight toxic chemicals is a women's movement. It's a concern about health; it's very intimate.

I am always interested in looking for the strongest possible leadership.

The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

I like the idea of using all this science and technology to allow for our clients to have a deeper insight into the market.

Science, almost from its beginnings, has been truly international in character. National prejudices disappear completely in the scientist's search for truth.