Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Fenwick
Millicent Vernon Hammond Fenwickwas an American fashion editor, politician and diplomat. A four-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from New Jersey, she entered politics late in life and was renowned for her energy and colorful enthusiasm. She was regarded as a moderate and progressive within her party and was outspoken in favor of civil rights and the women's movement. She was considered the inspiration behind Lacey Davenport, a fictional character in Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth25 February 1910
CityNew York City, NY
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Economics is not a science, in the sense that a policy can be repeatedly applied under similar conditions and will repeatedly produce similar results.
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.
Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed.
Like life and people, it is full of paradoxes. Etiquette is based on tradition, and yet it can change. Its ramifications are trivialities, but its roots are in great principles.
A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.
One of the keys to our present definition of good taste is that it is better to be kind than to be 'correct.' There is no situation in which it is smart to be nasty.