GEM: (9) Ms. Abzug, thank you very much. Any closing remarks?

Ms. Abzug: Ms. Abzug: You can't continue to have a world without equal participation of men and women. That's my central thesis. Can I prove that women will change the nature of power rather than power will change the nature of women? I can't prove it, but it's something that in my heart I have always believed would happen. But you don't know that until you have a critical mass, and we don't have a critical mass of women in power, so we don't really know. But my experience in the Congress of the United States and some studies have shown, for example, that Democratic and Republican women--women--of both parties will cross lines and vote together on big, important social issues, issues like peace, much more than the men. That's been my experience, so it's an infusion, I think, that would be very helpful.

Sometimes I say that it's not that I think women are superior to men, it's just that we've had so little opportunity to be corrupted by power. And I jokingly add sometimes that we want that opportunity.

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