Patricia Ireland
Patricia Ireland
Patricia Irelandis a U.S. administrator and feminist. She served as president of the National Organization for Women, from 1991 to 2001 and published an autobiography, What Women Want, in 1996...
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John Ashcroft ... stands for some of the most regressive policies on the ultraconservative agenda. He would ban contraceptive pills, deny contraceptive action to a woman who had been raped and would not allow an abortion in a case of incest.
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I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
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Jesus never said anything about homosexuality.
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Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety.
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the two major parties too often present us with a choice of the evil of two lessers.
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The Young Women's Christian Association is nourished by its roots in Christianity and, at the same time, over the years, it's been enriched by beliefs and values from all kinds of places, even, in fact, strengthened by our diversity.
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We have to stop this violence. We have to make the political nature of the violence clear, that the violence we experience in our own homes is not a personal family matter, it's a public and political problem. It's a way that women are kept in line, kept in our places.
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In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.
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The Violence Against Women Act is so important. It provides money to train the cop on the beat, to train the judges that this is a new day, that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
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Most of us see Justice O'Connor as something of an icon, although we do not agree with all of her decisions.