Occupation: Lawyer Birth: July 24, 1920 Death: March 31, 1998
This woman's place is in the House - the House of Representatives..
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over..
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all - every gen….
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes..
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, bu….
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted a….
Never go back, never apologize, and never forget we're half the human race..
Women's struggle for equality worldwide is about more than equality between men and women. Our struggle is about reversing the trends of social, econ….
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure ... no wonder it's been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country..
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it..
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women..
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century - and the economy - around..
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously..
Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge..
I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone ….
Maybe we weren't at the Last Supper, but we're certainly going to be at the next one..
the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has….
I always had a decent sense of outrage..
We need laws that protect everyone - men and women, straights and gays, regardless of sexual perversion...ah, persuasion..
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business..
They used to give us a day-it was called International Women's Day. In 1975 they gave us a year, the Year of the Woman. Then from 1975 to 1985 they g….