All across the country, the Women's March inspired doctors and teachers and mothers to become activists and organizers and, yes, candidates for office.

The women who walk into Planned Parenthood clinics come from every background, every political persuasion.

For women, access to reproductive health care isn't a political issue.

The good news is when we are in full-on sisterhood, women are the most powerful, political force in America.

The dream of any scholar has, for me, come true by virtue of this award. The Nobel Prizes are justly famous in the hard sciences, in literature, and for peace.

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the world. It was a classic good-versus-evil war.

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen.

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.