I'm not a prejudice person, and I've worked with many male legislators and some have been excellent for us, so I'm not speaking against a class of people.

Just think - guns have a constitutional amendment protecting them and women don't.

There's no question in my mind but that rights are never won unless people are willing to fight for them.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

I have been studying women’s political behavior since the early 1970s and first identified the gender gap in 1980 with the help of legendary pollster Louis Harris.

The gag rule is, is that if any program receiving United States funding for Family Planning cannot mention, cannot speak the word "abortion" in the Third World.

As long as we can be just the sidelight, the side issue, issues that deal with human beings, both men and women and children that should be given more prominence are not.

I mean, how many men would have gone on to the floor of the House as Carolyn Maloney did and wear a burkha to show the fight of Afghan women.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

Carolyn Maloney has been a consistent fighter for Afghan women but also for International Family Planning Bills.

Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.

It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for four years.

I enjoy finding the right word and giving each its full measure, its full space in a sentence.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

The poet, the artist, the sleuth, whoever sharpens our perception tends to antisocial; rarely 'well adjusted,' he cannot go along with currents and trends.

Human women have been slapping men for being bastards for centuries. You were doing what comes naturally.

Victory comes only to those prepared to make it, and take it.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.

When you finish work, practically everybody in that place is going to watch a movie at night anyway. They're tired. They have dinner. They go up to their room. They're watching TV.