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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.
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Men Sainthood Views
Congress is a middle-aged, middle-class, white male power structure … no wonder it’s been so totally unresponsive to the needs of this country.
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Class Country White
Abortion doesn’t belong in the political arena. It’s a private right, like many other rights concerning the family.
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Abortion Political Rights
The inside operation of Congress – the deals, the compromises, the selling out, the co-opting, the unprincipled manipulating, the self-serving career-building – is a story of such monumental decadence that I believe if people find out about it they will demand an end to it.
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Believe Career Government
We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it.
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Done Feminism World
the women’s movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
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Legs Movement Stronger
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.
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Justice Memorable Struggle
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
All the men on my staff can type.
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Men Staff Type
Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.
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Lasts Next Women
This woman’s place is in the House – the House of Representatives.
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House Representatives
The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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Jobs Memorable Women
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply
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Challenges Dollars Years
If we get a government that reflects more of what this country is really about, we can turn the century – and the economy – around.
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Country Government Reality

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