From Cora Weiss, President, The Hague Appeal for Peace; Gloria Steinem Chair Steering Committee Member

"We need to stay together, to organize without anger, with nonviolence, with creative legal resistance to injustice, we need to be clear and reasonable, and continue to press values of equality, peace, abolition of nuclear weapons, justice, and decency. We need progressive women at decision making tables...We have overcome adversity before. Let's hang in. Stay together. We still have to pass on a safer, saner more equitable world to our children and grandchildren, to future generations."

From Charlotte Bunch, Distinguished Professor in Women's & Gender Studies; Founding Director and Senior Scholar, Center for Women's Global Leadership

"This was an election in which race, gender, and class issues in the US were widely exposed, and simplistic nationalism called upon, as it has been in other countries around the world recently. The changes of globalization and overturning patriarchy require more complex solutions, and we must all continue to address them for a more inclusive US politics to prevail. Many are shocked now but this process has sparked a conversation and charged up a new generation that must work for a wider and deeper coalition for positive change, including more women in leadership."