"I want to organize so that women see ourselves as people who are entitled to power, entitled to leadership."
― Patricia Ireland
Topic(s):
Equality
More From Patricia Ireland
- "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."
- "When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the ’70s and ’80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law."
- "Stewardesses are still paid so little that in many cases, new hires qualify for food stamps."
More In Equality
- "I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it’s the government’s role to provide everything."― Rick Warren
- "At a time when efforts are being made to eradicate discrimination between the sexes in the search for social equality and justice, the differences between the sexes are being rediscovered."― Carol Gilligan
- "I believe there is complete equality between men and women. And I believe those passages in the New Testament, not by Jesus, but by Paul, that say women should not adorn themselves, they should always wear hats or color their hair in church – things like that – I think they are signs of the times and should not apply to modern-day life."― Jimmy Carter