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Patricia Ireland

"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."

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"I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism."

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"I tell women not to believe everything they read about fashion."

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"There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."

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"After all, what is your host's purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi."

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"There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner."

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"Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company."

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"Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?"

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"The real ornament of a woman is her character, her purity."

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"But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire."

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"A sexual revolution begins with the emancipation of women, who are the chief victims of patriarchy, and also with the ending of homosexual oppression."

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"The condition of women in Islamic societies as a whole is also far from desirable. However, we should acknowledge that there are differences. In certain countries, the conditions are much better and in others much worse."

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Patricia Ireland
"I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents."

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Patricia Ireland
"Bush's choice of Dick Cheney as his running mate is clear confirmation of the policies he would promote and the nominations he would make to an already closely divided U.S. Supreme Court."

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Patricia Ireland
"They plan to ride into the White House on the Sweet Talk Express. Well, think again. Bush and Cheney are not compassionate conservatives. They are ruthless reactionaries."

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Patricia Ireland
"Advice and consent does not mean rubber stamp in the Senate."

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Patricia Ireland
"Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."

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Patricia Ireland
"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."

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

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

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Patricia Ireland
"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."

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