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Barbara Jordan

"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

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Donna Grant

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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Donna Grant

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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Donna Grant

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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Donna Grant

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

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Donna Grant

"Every woman is just a different kind of problem."

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Donna Grant

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water!"

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Donna Grant

"An untempted woman cannot boast of her chastity."

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Donna Grant

"A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."

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Donna Grant

"I'm so disturbed when my women students behave as though they can only read women, or black students behave as though they can only read blacks, or white students behave as though they can only identify with a white writer."

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Donna Grant

"Women are always most observed when they seem themselves least to observe, or to lay out for observation."

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Barbara Jordan
"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."

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Barbara Jordan
"I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it."

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Barbara Jordan
"We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America."

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Barbara Jordan
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."

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Barbara Jordan
"Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny."

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Barbara Jordan
"We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community."

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Barbara Jordan
"What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance."

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Barbara Jordan
"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."

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Barbara Jordan
"What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise."

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Barbara Jordan
"We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition."

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