Inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1995.
Served in Congress from 1973 to 1996.
Democrat, and former member of the lower chamber of the U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives, serving her electorate in the state of Colorado. She has always been an ardent, eloquent supporter of women's rights.
She graduated from the University of Minnesota and received a law degree from Harvard.
She was the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee.
On mothering: Babies don't come with directions on the back or batteries that can be removed. Motherhood is twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. You can't leave the office.'