Eleanor Smeal Quotes

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

  Eleanor Smeal

  Gun, Thinking, Amendments

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

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  Fighting, Rights, People

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• 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.

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  Feminist, Feminism, Sense Of Humor

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

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  Needs, Want, Women's Rights

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• Nowhere have women been more excluded from decision-making than in the military and foreign affairs. When it comes to the military and questions of nuclear disarmament, the gender gap becomes the gender gulf.

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  Military, War, Gender Gap

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• We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.

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  Military, Blow, Goes On

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• We have so few women in Congress. We are so underrepresented and whether we like it or not, we are in area - in an era that still the women, the handful that are there, have two jobs: they represent the constituency that they're from, and they also represent the women of the nation or the state or sometimes as Maloney has done, of the world.

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  Jobs, Two, Done

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.

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  Unique, Thinking, Rights

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• Carolyn Maloney led the fight to make sure that DNA evidence kits are processed and passed the Debbie Smith Bill. She, when no one almost would listen to us on the whole issue of the Taliban and its treatment of women, she helped pass the Afghan Women's Empowerment Act.

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  Fighting, Dna, Issues

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• We think that Hillary [Clinton] will be a symbol and a reality for the women of the world, and it's very important because so many - so many underdeveloped countries, not the least of which is Afghanistan, the women of the world need help, and she understands those issues and is a lightning rod for them.

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  Country, Reality, Thinking

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• Since the 1950s (until the early 1990s), girls in Kabul and other cities attended schools. Half of university students were women, and women made up 40 percent of Afghanistan’s doctors, 70 percent of its teachers and 30 percent of its civil servants. A small number of women even held important political posts as members of Parliament and judges. Most women did not wear the burqa.

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  Girl, Teacher, School

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• In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.

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  New York, Mean, Squares

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Well it's unusual for us to do an endorsement, you know, and the special occasions where you need appointments, but we thought that Senator [Hillary] Clinton had occupied such a neat and unique role, certainly a worldwide advocate for women, and also there's also only 16 women without her in Congress.

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  Unique, Special, Needs

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• 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.

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  Gender Gap, Political, Gaps

  "The Gender Gap Rules 2012 Election" by Eleanor Smeal, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 1, 2012.

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• 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.

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  Mean, Fighting, Men

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• Carolyn Maloney knows how to get something done, and as I said, it doesn't matter if she's in the majority or the minority. It doesn't matter if she's chair of a committee or not, she can figure out how to get a piece of legislation passed, and that's what is - is a unique quality.

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  Unique, Quality, Majority

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• 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.

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  Class, People, Males

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• She [Carolyn Maloney] understands the whole picture. She is comfortable with these issues 'cause she is chair of the committee, and she's dogged and will make sure the average woman and man is represented as well as making sure that our financial system stays afloat. In other words, she gets it and she has represented the financial district, but she also represents the average person and definitely the average woman.

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  Men, Average, Issues

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• She [Carolyn Maloney] knows the financial issues, that's why we thought she was perfect because we're in a - we're in, as you know, a financial crisis, an economic crisis, and I know that she'll see the whole picture.

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  Issues, Perfect, Financial

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• No one thinks she [Carolyn Maloney] can pass the Paid Family and Medical Leave Act; she passed it through the House. I mean, it's just - she's there. She knows the issues and she makes sure they get done.

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  Mean, Thinking, Issues

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

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  Years, Long, Unusual

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

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  Bills, Planning, Fighter

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• Carolyn Maloney has extensive - she's shown over and over again her creativity, her determination, her tenacity in fighting for women's rights. She has passed a host of bills in many different areas, both national and global, with both national and global importance for women, and she's on a Chair of Finance Committee so essentially in this economic crisis, we thought she would be perfect.

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  Determination, Creativity, Fighting

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• Carolyn [Maloney] is the kind of legislator who, whether she's in the majority or the minority, whether her party is in the majority or the minority, she doesn't take "No" for an answer, and she frequently calls women leaders and say, "I think we should do this. This is really necessary for women." And so she hangs in there and gets bills passed when people think it's not possible.

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  Party, Thinking, People

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• Well we didn't look at it like that. We looked at it: "Why Carolyn Maloney?" Of course, we didn't know about Caroline Kennedy, but we do know and have - this is not against somebody, this is for somebody who we know has had a proven record. It's 16 years in the House, 10 years on the City Council of New York City, that she has shown her determination to pass legislation. She is - she knows how a legislature works.

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  Determination, New York, Years

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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