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Maybe we weren’t at the Last Supper, but we’re certainly going to be at the next one.

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Nixon impeached himself. He gave us Ford as his revenge.
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Impeached Revenge Vehicle
Women have been trained to speak softly and carry a lipstick. Those days are over.
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Equality Heartless Strong Women
When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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Hats Lawyer Way
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 are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.
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Inspirational Motivational Women
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
There are those who say I’m impatient, impetuous, uppity, rude, profane, brash, and overbearing. Whether I’m any of those things, or all of them, you can decide for yourself. But whatever I am — and this ought to be made very clear — I am a very serious woman.
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Decide Impatient Profane Things Thoe Uppity
Women will change the nature of power, rather than power changing the nature of women.
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Changing Nature Power Women
I prefer the word ‘homemaker’ because ‘housewife’ always implies that there may be a wife someplace else.
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Funny Wife Women
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
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Always Decent Outrage Sense
Women will not simply be mainstreamed into the polluted stream. Women are changing the stream, making it clean and green and safe for all – every gender, race, creed, sexual orientation, age, and ability.
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Age Race Women
They are a very extensive minority who have suffered discrimination and who have the same right to participation in the promise and fruits of society as every other individual.
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Individuality Promise Suffering
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
In the face of so much pain, I remain an incurable optimist. I am fueled by the passion of the women I have been privileged to meet and work with, buoyed by their hope for peace, justice, and democracy.
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Justice Pain Passion
I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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Business Country Real
The establishment is made up of little men, very frightened.
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Littles Made Men

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