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"Extremely strong, effective, tenacious, and powerful political networks can be built when you fight losing battles as well as when you win."
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"When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph."

"Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there."

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"I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs."

"We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong."

"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."

"When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."

"Women are called upon to defend every bit of progress we have made against particularly virulent attack. But we must also hold out a vision, put forth a positive agenda of what women need and want and then move forward toward that dream."

"I know that it isn't just violence against women, it's how do we support ourselves and our families, how do we deal with health care for ourselves and our families? It's a bigger picture."

"Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions."

"Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds."
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