We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the hand…

- Eleanor Smeal

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

- Eleanor Smeal

Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up …

- Eleanor Smeal

We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdev…

- Eleanor Smeal

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the T…

- Eleanor Smeal

We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique per…

- Eleanor Smeal

We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it go…

- Eleanor Smeal

I've known Carolyn [Maloney] for years, by the way. I knew her when she was on the City Council and knew her when she was - when she was running, and…

- Eleanor Smeal

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

- Eleanor Smeal