- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Congress
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- Nov 07, 2020
Congress seems drugged and inert most of the time... its idea of meeting a problem is to hold hearings or, in extreme cases, to appoint a commission.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is obvious that discrimination exists. Women do not have the opportunities that men do. And women that do not conform to the system, who try to break with the accepted patterns, are stigmatized as odd and unfeminine.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran because somebody had to do it first. In this country, everybody is supposed to be able to run for president, but that has never really been true.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I ran for the presidency, despite hopeless odds, to demonstrate the sheer will and refusal to accept the status quo. The next time a woman runs, or a black, a Jew, or anyone from a group that the country is 'not ready' to elect to its highest office, I believe that he or she will be taken seriously from the start.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is that a woman who aspires to be chairman of the board - or a member of the House - does so for exactly the same reasons as any man. Basically, these are that she thinks she can do the job, and she wants to try.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want history to remember me... not as the first black woman to have made a bid for the presidency of the United States, but as a black woman who lived in the 20th century and who dared to be herself. I want to be remembered as a catalyst for change in America.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is little place in the political scheme of things for an independent, creative personality, for a fighter. Anyone who takes that role must pay a price.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020