Hilary Berger Ross begins Part 1 of her 1988 interview by discussing her search for community at Pembroke College, and speaks about her experience as a city girl – a female day student who attended Pembroke but did not live on campus. She remembers Pembroke rules and studying women in Shakespeare. She explains that the birth of her first child galvanized her to feminism and specifically women’s health issues. For her, childbirth should be entirely in the hands of the woman who gives birth and her loved one. According to Ross, the medical profession wasn’t devised from a woman's perspective at all, and because of this, hospitals expect women to accept their procedures and be a good patient rather than allowing them to experience childbirth in the way they want to.

In Part 2, she discusses founding the Women’s Health Collective to organize women around the fury that women felt in the early years of the women’s movement and to give women control over when and how they gave birth to their children.

In Parts 3 and 4, she reflects on the goals of the Women’s Health Collective and their activism process, as well as the way the organization has changed and evolved.

In Part 5, she considers her Jewish identity, activist work and her involvement with Women for a Non-Nuclear Future, the Feminist Theatre, and the Friday Group.

In Part 6, Ross discusses her run for governor, and the Tough Love organization, and concludes by reflecting on her activism, explaining that she wants to live in a place she is proud of.